Zyra vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Zyra
based on 9,202 Zyra vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Lucian Counter Build
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Core Zyra Items
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Lucian
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Zyra against Lucian counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Lucian
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Who is Better, Zyra or Lucian?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a great counter for Lucian.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate compared to Lucian, when facing one another, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Lucianas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Lucian matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zyra to counter Lucian during both the early game 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 grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zyra versus Lucian build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Lucian than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 54.2% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Lucian as Zyra, Zyra players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zyra vs Lucian battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Zyra are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.