Xayah vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Xayah
based on 3,789 Xayah vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Lucian
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Advice to Win Against Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Xayah vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Xayah in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Xayah against Lucian counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian..
Xayah usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Lucian
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Who is Better, Xayah or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when facing off against Lucian, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a bad counter for Lucian.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate compared to Lucian, when facing one another, Xayah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xayah into Lucian.
Furthermore, Xayah has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Lucian. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Lucian.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
Additional Information for Xayah Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Lucian. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xayah versus Lucian build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Lucian than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Lucian with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Lucian as Xayah, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Xayah vs Lucian counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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