Zilean vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Zilean
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Zilean vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Lucian
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Zilean versus Lucian counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lucian. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Lucian
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Who is Better, Zilean or Lucian?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 53.9% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a great counter for Lucian.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zilean into Lucian.
Additionally, Zilean has a great amount 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Lucian matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a great counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zilean against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean in order to counter Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean often picks up a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Zilean versus Lucian build include Seraph's Embrace, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Lucian than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 53.9% battling Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Lucian as Zilean, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Zilean vs Lucian battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
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