Zoe vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Zoe
based on 2,951 Zoe vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Lucian Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Lucian
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Zoe against Lucian matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Zoe often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Lucian
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Lucian, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a bad counter to Lucian.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Lucian, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Lucian.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Lucian.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Lucian Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lucian. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zoe versus Lucian build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Lucian than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 48.2% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Lucian as Zoe, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zoe vs Lucian clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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