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.
The stats shown on this page show some influential Yuumi versus Lucian matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when playing against Lucian, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a bad counter for Lucian.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Lucian, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Yuumi into Lucian.
Furthermore, Yuumi has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yuumi is a trash counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Lucian.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average picks up a lot less CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yuumi versus Lucian build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 45.2% battling Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Lucian as Yuumi, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Yuumi vs Lucian matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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