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!
The Samira Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Samira perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira tries to synergize with Lucian, she gets a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Lucian supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played alongside Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Lucian on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Lucian does a poor job of covering Samira during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Samira that will always be her best teammate. However, Lucian is a terrible teammate for Samira. By playing on the same side as Samira, he drops their win rate by -4.6% to 44.1%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Samira and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Lucian comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Samira players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Samira and Lucian together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to work well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Samira and Lucian synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Lucian than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 44.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Samira and Lucian pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Lucian with Samira are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.