My Thoughts on Making Lucian a Healthier Champion

I'd like to make Lucian E less dependent on his passive to drop CD. E CD was originally upped because of his early bully combo in midlane. I think if E cd was lowered significantly but refund on passive was lower, he could be healthier.

In other words, to get mid/late game reset, might make sense to force him to make him use his passive on his W and Q instead of just E - aa - q - aa - e... Don't know if that'd be too drastic of a change, but it feels weird that he doesn't really come online until he's able to do that.

Lucian's core problem with his E CD reduction mechanic is that there's** very little clarity** to his enemies with it. I think this problem is shared with many CD reduction mechanics (not resets - I think those have better clarity). There's an enormous range of possible CD's for lucian's E based on whether or not he hits his passive, who he hits it on, how many times he hits it, etc. It makes it frustrating to play against, because quite simply, if you're not the one playing lucian, it's very difficult to track whether or not he's able to dash or not.

Personally, i'd make the CD on it 12/11/10/9/8 and have lightslinger shots (regardless of the target) reduce CD only by 1s (at level 5, makes you have to do a full combo to fully reset E), but that's just me :) No reason to over-complicate the ability.