Lucian Nerfs

CromeMarksman·11/6/2014, 4:39:54 AM·2 votes·525 views

I can't believe this.. Lucian is just so bad now. I just don't get the point of the nerfs. You guys made too many nerfs to Lucian. First you take 50 points off his range which is a critical mistake for an ad carry champion to make. Ask any AD main, they will tell you should never mess with a marksman's base range. 550 base is fine. By changing his AA range to 500 you just made his kiting vulnerable to melee attacks because depending on his attack speed it should take him 1 to 2 seconds to stop > auto > move. 1 to 2 seconds is a lot of time. Also by reducing Lucian's range you simply made him an all in champion. Lucian is not an assassin. Lucian is a marksman. His position is in the back line. If I am playing vs a tristana or a caitlyn or a jinx or any other marksman champion with a range buff, in order to make my attack winnable, I must dash in which could make him vulnerable to many things.

Furthermore, you guys then reward him with free E's, which i have to admit kind of made up for the loss of 50 points on his AA range. Then you take it away. Then now, you take away his AD ratio on his W and replace it with movement speed buff which nobody cares for that much AND you increase his CD on his ulti by a huge amount. Might as well just remove the champion because, his ulti on short cool down was a great reward for the lack of damage his ulti does. At least if you are going to do this, make his ulti crit. Because his ulti shoots one way and in order to get its full potential you need to land 75% of it which is difficult to do. Now if i miss fire or want to cancel because not enough shots are going to land, i have to wait for a long time for my ulti to come back up. It is very useful and the least you can do for lucian when you have short ulti cool down because his ulti is not very powerful.

To summarize, Lucian needs a slight buff. All the nerfs you made are fine and can be lived with but when you take away 50 points from his range and then add the small nerfs you made, suddenly its no longer a small issue because now At least return his old range back at 550 or cancel his mana cost on his E because right now, lucian has taken so many hits, his passive doesn't make up for it even. Please do something about this and give him some sort of buff.

8 Comments

DayVGaming11/6/2014, 4:44:59 AM2 votes

He was too strong, that was the point of the nerfs.

AtheosisX11/6/2014, 8:15:21 AM2 votes

He was overpowered. He got nerfed. That's how it goes.

IceKingChernobog11/6/2014, 6:11:56 AM1 votes

The dude was way too strong, A lane bully who can burst down the enemy adc at lvl 3 and also scales well into late game. The range nerf was suppose to make him vunerable to trading so he actually have to get in the danger to do damage. But with lucian his Q and W are just long range skills his disposal to poke the enemy with out getting his hands too dirty. But riot messed it up when they gave him a crap load of compensation buffs along with meaningful nerfs to make him balanced. He honestly deserve these nerfs, just be lucky they didn't give him his passive a cooldown(which they should)

Kuroi8611/6/2014, 12:00:28 PM1 votes

The changes were made to better cement Lucian into the fighting style that has built up around him. Dash in, AA, ability, AA, ability, AA. Basically he's a gunslinger, constantly throwing out damage. Riot has been tweaking him in order to better balance him around this playstyle as well as keep him from being too oppressive outside of the key part of the game when he is meant to be strong.

If Riot overshot the changes, then they will slowly tweak him back some until they feel he's in a good spot.

hOrnn11/6/2014, 12:08:42 PM1 votes

wtf r u smoking lucian still needs more nerfs.

Hayaishi11/6/2014, 2:48:55 PM1 votes

He had been overpowered for more than 5 patches. It was time for it to stop.