I'm Angry

Hardstuck G4··1 votes·501 views

Now, I'm not going to be salty about the regular things. I don't think Vayne is OP, I don't care about Yasuo, I think the Juggernauts are fine. No, what makes me mad is how bad Lucian is! One of my favorite champions. On release (when everyone thought he was trash, mind you), I had confidence that he would become a powerful champion. And so, he got his popularity, and was changed. The range change really wasn't and still isn't a problem for me. While the infinite dashes were ridiculous, they were what kept him good! Has anyone bothered to even point out how weak he is?! He is one of the least popular ADC's in the GAME. Let's look at these stats.

Currently, Lucian has a 9.75% pick ratio. Now, you're probably thinking Oh, almost 10%? That's not bad. Wrong. Let's look at the highest champions. Jinx alone almost has 4x the pick ratio that Lucian does. So, either Lucian needs a buff or Jinx needs a nerf, yeah?

His win ratio is trash as well, totally in at 47%! Guess what? That's the lowest of all ACTUAL ADC's... The only ones lower than him are Urgot and Kindred.

He needs changes. First, his W

Ardent Blaze Range: 1000 Cost: 50 Mana Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 MAGIC DAMAGE?!?!: 60/100/140/180/220 (+90% AP) ACTIVE: Lucian fires a shot that explodes in a cross pattern upon hitting an enemy or reaching the end of its path, dealing magic damage, marking enemies hit for 6 seconds and granting Sight icon sight of them for the duration. If Lucian or allied champions damage a marked target with basic attacks or abilities, he gains bonus movement speed for 1 second Movespeed: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Now, this ability is absolutely HORRIBLE!! Looking at it, you think "Oh, 220 Base Damage at Level 5? That's not bad." No! It's Magic Damage, first off. So, any MR will just stop the damage. And since he builds no AP, asides from MAYBE item 3078. Yeah, it's a bad ability. How to change it? Ready for this? It's simple. Reduce the scaling to 50% AP and 50% AD, and make it do 50/50 Magic/Physical damage. Boom, now it does damage and is actually good. Change the movespeed to last for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds, and it becomes even better.

His ult damage could also be increased. It currently does 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 25% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP), and scales 7.5 (+ 750 / 900 / 1050% attack speed) shots. How to change THIS?! Two solutions here.

  1. Bump the damage, gut the AP scaling, buff the AD scaling. 35% Bonus AD with 50/65/80 damage per shot? May get ridiculous towards end game, but it's very easily avoided.
  2. Change the shots. Yeah, you heard me. Go to 8.5 (+ 850/1000/1150% attack speed) shots.

Now, you wouldn't do both of these changes, that would be ridiculous, but doing 1 of them would make him fairly solid.

Thank you for your consideration

3 Comments

Juicyman1 votes

I thought Lucian was up for some changes to solidify him as an AD Caster, instead we have Graves being the focus despite being perfectly fine.

Hardstuck G41 votes

I honestly think that Graves is already the stronger of the two, and they just don't want Lucian to become popular again, because the last time he was popular, he was completely in the meta and no one could stop him.

Inphernal1 votes

Angry about elves!

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