easy mode build- blade of the ruined king, attack speed boots, black cleaver, rapid fire cannon, infinity edge, blood thirster, in that order (buy boots alongside blade of the ruined king with spare gold).

Complications: merc treads and tabis are sometimes better than beserks phantom is better than rapid fire cannon if they have a lot of assassins or bruisers deaths dance is better against bruisers and assassins than blood thirster because of the reduced burst damage from deaths dance's passive sometimes you have incredibly ape teams and you're sitting with 4k out and you just need to do as much damage as possible. Simple solution- sell boots for a third crit item, that item being rapid fire cannon or phantom dancer, whichever you dont have. They give passive movement speed so you're not too much slower and you get movement speed from auto-ing thanks to black cleaver passive so you're actually not too slow and you'll have 100% crit chance. If your team is really that ape, it usually doesn't actually matter that youve sold boots for the 100% crit but sometimes it's that little extra bit of damage output that lets you 1v9

Korean Lucian: Youmuu's GhostBlade, Berserkers Greaves, Black Cleaver, Rapid Fire Cannon, Essence Reaver, (6th Item is up to you)

People say one or the other bc your zeal choice is situational. PD is good when you're planning to split push and 1v2 or 2v2. Also realy good against assassins in 1v1s. RFC is good when you plan on team fighting and you need to hit the backline without getting too deep.

PD is better for dueling if people are going to be hitting you. Read the items, pick which is best.

I found a build for him that doesn't use BotRK that works really well, ER into BC and full crit after

I put notes for each build on the mobafire guide you have to hover your mouse over it, but anyways optimal build means we would want to take this unless they have tanks, or you need to have sustain in lane so you can build BOTRK which is labeled in a different build, situational items can be used at any time if you feel the need to switch your last few items up but for now ER IE is the strongest.

save yourself now, and do not learn this role. i regret it everyday. :(

i’m not sure about the conqueror path although lucian can easily stack it. however PTA is extremely good for lucian as due to his passive he can proc the three hit active pretty quickly and with good damage too. other runes are just adc norms going for either sustain in lane or scaling in the rest of the game.

1.mid game (early too but not that good)

2. after er and navori (or ie)

3. no

4. no

5. buffs made ppl upgrade w instead of e, thats the point of lucian coming back into the meta last 2 patches

Only power spike is 6. Riot needs to stop nerfing us.

Lucian is an easy to pick up hard to master champion, his passive plays a key role in his ability to dish out a lot of damage at all stages of the game. He is definitely an early to mid game champion but he does have tools in his kit take down targets in the late to end game.

I would classify him as a (Spell-Weaving Duelist) I know that’s not correct since he’s an ADC but you do get a lot of value out of your passive. And the passive procs are every time an enemy is hit with cc like a Morgan Q, or if Lucian himself is buffed by another ally spell like nami Bubbles or J4 flag thingy. I would pair him with an enchanter. someone that can add some extra gold value to amplify his passive further (lulu, yummi, nami, karma) or someone with a lot of hard cc (Leona, and naut, braum)

I normally do ER into Collector but these two are interchangeable or drop collector for another crit item. I would then pick up IE. After that it’s a toss up between BT and LDR.

If kraken slayer ever receives a buff or receives its crit hit chance back I would say rush kraken into er or ie and totally skip collector.

I generally don’t build a zeal item on Lucian because I like to play around his passive but if I had to build one it would be rapid fire cannon just for the extra range since he does suffer with low range compared to other ADC. With that being said when you get into a fight you have to commit to it ESPECIALLY in the early game.

hes fine. need to play aggro and get a lead and that sometimes depends on ur support too, unfortunately.

Watch bvoy’s game 2 vs flyquest

He's very strong rn. Just play aggressively and don't pick him with mages.

You have to get very good at his combos or don't bother playing him as he not good at auto attacking.

Ngl, I don't think I've ever built SoS on Lucian but I usually don't get Navori either.

Most often, my build looks like: ER>Boots>IE/LDR>LDR/IE>Situational (BT, RFC, Collector, GA, Maw)

I don't buy Zerks. I prefer Ionian>MC>Plated. I like to go ER+Navori and if fed ER+IE+Navori.

I tried rushing LDR a ton and never saw it as a core item and more as situational. Vs a Mundo, Tahm, Ornn, etc LDR was never enough to fully peel them. Maybe Tahm, but LDR isn't as strong as it used to be with its max%HP dmg. Why I prefer my core always as ER+Navori+IE.

Only impact that's made a huge difference in my games is my boots choice. If you don't go MC Vs a lilia+Ashe, etc or a Plated Vs Zed+Noct, etc then you'll likely struggle hard early.

I'd rather not focus on tanks anymore early because you need 4items to kill a tank as Lucian. Respectfully 3, but the issue is that IE is essential because say you go something like...

ER+LDR+Bork

You peel and can only 1v1 the tank, but a MF/Cait/Kaisa/Jhin/etc is going to roll up on you with IE/BT and just outdmg/outsustain you because you're rushing LDR or peel items early in general.

Lucian has to get IE early to contest people he's meant to kill. If there's like a Swain+Tahm in your bot lane then yeah you'd probably take like FS as a rune+ER+YT+LDR or something like that and hope you peel and farm gold to rush your peel items faster.

Basically if you're against tanks I'd prefer FS as a rune and try to reach that 4item play fast.

YunTal is a good item that deals less dmg than IE, but it kind of serves as a less ranged RFC where it works great in high crit% to let you pseudo engage over and over. 2combos E in, E out, repeat and your able to sustain dmg on them. YT+LDR work nice together because you're building noonquiver back fo back and having gold efficiency.

TLDR: Gold Efficient Vs Tanks

Another thing, the RFC topic. RFC sucks rn. BT is a strong prevalent item rn that every ADC is building and some rushing first like MF/Draven, maybe Samira, etc.

RFC doesn't do shit rn. It shouldn't. If you can utilize it before someone gets BT or you're fed then yea. But BT is getting as popular as Barrier now where everyones learning how strong it is and RFC is becoming less prominent. I wouldn't recommend the item. I prefer Lucian to be strong in skirmishes, not poking/bursting with a weak item in a BT+Barrier environment.

Is black cleaver still viable instead of LDR? Cooldown and HP also it’s easy to stack 30% armor penn with lucians abilities

No lol, the only build for Lucian is collector into IE then a RFC from there u can get what is needed for the game

I'm relatively new to lucian, so take this as a very personal opinion. From what I've seen (I've spammed like 40 lucian games in the span of a week), lucian doesn't really need attack speed, the second passive auto in uncancelable and E is an auto reset. So in a burst combo attack speed is pretty useless. Also the sustain is nice since you already need so many items to work (ER, IE, Navori, LDR) having to also build lifesteal means you don't get access to that stat till last item.

I guess attackspeed would be more dps vs tanks and better all-ins early game, but it comes with the trade off of relying always on your support to heal you for sustain

Alacrity is better, it's better early and it improves your DPS at all stages Bloodline scales nicely because it means you aren't forced to buy a BT and if you want say 100% crit with your first four items you get a bit of lifesteal and if you are really in a pinch and let's you buy dorans blade. Idk what riot should do but alacrity is what you want bloodline feels like what you need.

Because ur usually not building life stealuntil ur 4th item. So the life steal from the rune and Doran’s kind of fills that gap

You’re right attack speed is better in soloq.

Because Lucian damage comes from empowered autos but he has a lackluster DPS. Attack speed will be on his build already due to Navori for reducing CDs from basic abilities but attack speed is not a good stat for Lucian. Attack speed on Alacrity is also kind of bad - the rune when completed is worthy 450g iirc, while other runes are worthy more.

Pta is much better than electrocute mid game, electrocute patch falls faster in late game than pta (it's not necessarily the PTA vs electrocute, it's the entire path that makes it better late).

And since Lucian weakness is late game, I'd rather go pta

meta is PTA but I like using first strike also gd Vs tanks and procing off ult for a pickoff mid/late is nice - if I win lane a lot I go collectors but either this or essence reaper are your go to go IE next for dmg or also nice to go navoris second item if better for outplay / staying alive

I usually do ER>IE>LDR>zeal in most of my games now. It doesn’t feel as nice to not spam abilities as much, but between targets you’ll have better burst, a stronger ult that’ll also soak up ability down time, and immediate counter to armor. Even if the bruiser/tanks haven’t built armor yet, they probably have tabis or they’re already queuing it up with a chainmail vest

Go ER into IE in Black Cleaver. Korean build. Will help you climb to challenger and perhaps go pro in the near future. Your future is in your hands, and you can start today.

When I am behind and they have lots of tanks I like to forgo navori and often go er ldr, ldr scales well and is a bit cheaper than IE

I find that if you are building ER early then it’s a bit pointless to take Mana Flow Band. I take Inspiration secondary with boots and biscuits.

Also I’ve been playing around with taking Presence of Mind like GRF Viper does. I find that it usually does more for me than triumph. In early kills it’s good cuz you dump all your mana killing the enemy but that run out of mana and struggle to push in the wave quickly. So PoM allows you to have a better back timing. And in mid game you get more ult up time. I like having ult up a lot because I find that I tend to be zoned out of teamfights a lot by bruisers or CC supports. Ult allows me to still contribute without suiciding.

The build right now is ER > IE > Zeal > Situational. 75% Crit is enough; 100% Crit can be a bit redundant.

Yes, a lot of people take BoRK first, esp pros. I personally feel that in solo que BoRK is a much more situational item now. Pros take it because they have extended laning phases and BoRK helps a lot with doing Baron.

In comparison to ER, BoRK deals a lot less damage against squishies so I feel like you get a stronger and faster powerspike rushing ER > IE than BoRK > ER > IE. It’s important to avoid 3 item powerspikes right now because most the meta ADCs that hyperscale and out scale Lucian have 3 item powerspikes (ex: Xayah, Kaisa). Hence, a 2 item powerspike allows you to close out the game faster before the enemy ADC truly comes online.