@Riot How to Nerf Lucian Properly

Lucian currently has an incredibly high pick rate and bot lane is getting a little bananas since him and Ezreal combined are picked basically half the time, I think Riot's going slap him with the nerf bat sometime soon. I'm posting this because I don't want Riot to do what they're planning for Ahri (Keep the champion as a generalist pick instead of nerfing what they believe is the problem because nobody complained about it. (I think Ahri's damage is too high by the way))

Lucian is a champion who's value comes from his strong mobility and kiting, but he has the same problem as Ahri, he deals too much burst damage. The problem here though is that many people like Lucian for his burst damage. There's two ways to go about this:

• Shift Lucian's damage profile to be more sustained by nerfing his damage across the board and compensating with lower cooldowns so he's more of more like a speedy gunslinger than laser cannon.

Or

• Define Lucian by his burst by decreasing his aa damage, increasing his CD's, or increasing his mana costs. Basically balance him like Jhin, has strong burst damage, but lacks the sustained damage marksmen are known for.

Lucian's been straddling the balance-fence for a really long time and I think that's because he's in between a marksman and an AD assassin. I think it'd be best for riot to decide with some finality which one they want him to be to take him off the balance rollercoaster. If this was my game, I would go with the former and tell people who enjoy the laser cannon playstyle to deal, but I don't know what Riot would want.

As for credentials, I'm just a silver nugget that plays bot some times, I'm just posting this because I missed my shot last time. Feel free to ignore this.