Why does ADC Lucian always go through long periods of being underpowered after short periods of op?
If someone from Riot could answer this for me I'd appreciate it. I'm a person that loves to play Lucian. He is the reason i really stuck with the game. In the 4 years of playing I've noticed the same trend and that is he is almost always kept perpetually weak and it usually happens after something breaks him.
Season 5 is an example where as far as i know nothing broke him he was just bad period. I remember the year of Loscian clearly. He was bad (of course I still played him), the community knew he was bad, and until you did the marksman rework for season six, he spent the entire season 5 as not even viable.
Season 6 it was been Blade/Cleaver and Armor Pen before the lethality rework mid season. Before that he was in a an ok spot. Still kept weak like usual and he got range nerfs and item nerfs again. Then the mid seasoon Armor Pen thing happens and he received nerfs to handle him using those. He was the only one to get meaningful nerfs that abused armor pen. Miss Fortune with armor pen didn't get any nerfs. Jhin with armor pen received a very small nerf that did not kill his viability when they were abusing the same items that Lucian was. However Lucian was nerfed basically out of viability as he was the worst adc for 7+ patches and didn't even get a buff til 7.1 and it was only 20 damage on q. He still remained the worst.
Then in season 7 blade of the ruined king rework again tipped the scales. He again gets nerfed and the items get nerfed. Ok he wasn't bad still near the worst adc but at least he was still viable bot then the Ardent meta happens and pros figured out he can bully mid lane he was again Nerfed and given 0 compensation to help bot lane Lucian. So now we are sitting at 10 patches where he is now been the worst ADC bot lane and not had anything done to him.
I just want to know why does this happen where he is good for a short when compared to the amount of time prior he was in a weakened state.. He gets nerfed and left alone to stay at or near the bottom for a long time. I love to play Lucian, but i also want to climb and right now I can't do that playing Lucian. Thinking about that it brought me to wonder why does this happen to him so often. He is left very weak and is untouched for extremely long periods of time. I just want to know why. I understand if a champion is overpowered he deserves nerfs. He needed those nerfs. What i fail to understand though is why is he left in an under-powered state for many patches without any warning or anything. Poppy(before rework), Azir, and kalista as examples you actually told the community that those champions were going to be kept weak til you could tend to them. Why not tell us that about Lucian if this is the case? Then I'd understand. The community hasn't heard that as far as I know so it leaves me wondering why? If anyone from Riot could give me an answer I'd appreciate it. I just want to know why. I don't care that he is getting buffs in 8.4. I just want to know why does he stay in a weak state for so long without at least a, "hey he is a balance problem so we will keep him in a weak state til we can give him a extensive look at." If that is the reason then Ok I understand but I just want to know something.
being trash for 2 years and no one cares
