Lucian with Gwen
How to Synergize Lucian and Gwen
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Lucian Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Gwen
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Lucian Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gwen helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is paired with Gwen, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Gwen doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Gwen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Lucian during team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Lucian that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Gwen is a relatively poor ally for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, she decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Lucian and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Gwen comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Lucian and Gwen together, you will not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to synergize with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Lucian and Gwen synergy build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gwen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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