[Champion Suggestion] Lucian - The Culling Interaction

Blorgorize·3/2/2014, 12:25:57 AM·2 votes·573 views

Lucian's ultimate, The Culling, should reduce the cooldown (0.5 seconds or 1 second) on Relentless Pursuit everytime Lucian strikes a target with his ultimate, rather than only having Relentless Pursuit refresh on a kill.

This also helps make it more apparent that the Culling isn't used as an execution move but rather an initiation, wave clear or a run and gun type of ability. As well as give another incentive to stack attack speed for more shots which in turn further reduces the cooldown of Relentless Pursuit

Whether or not The Culling can reduce the cooldown on Relentless Pursuit on minions and monsters as well or just enemy champions will have to be tested. Possible variations of this revised mechanic are as follows:

The Culling's Interaction with Relentless Pursuit V1:

  • The Culling now reduces the cooldown on Relentless Pursuit by 1 second each time it strikes an enemy champion.

The Culling's Interaction with Relentless Pursuit V2:

  • The Culling now reduces the cooldown on Relentless Pursuit by 0.25 seconds each time it strikes a minion or monster.
  • The Culling now reduces the cooldown on Relentless Pursuit by 0.5 seconds each time it strikes an enemy champion.
  • Testing is optional for 0.5 seconds on minions and monsters and 1 second on enemy champions.

A possible compensation from this increased utility via The Culling would be further gating the cooldown on Relentless Pursuit or a mana cost at max rank for Relentless Pursuit, if this interaction with The Culling proves to be too powerful.

If Lucian was in a subpar state I would also add in my thoughts on allowing interaction between Lightslinger and The Culling as well, but there is no need for it due to Lucian being in a good, if not great spot as it is.

6 Comments

MackleDoge3/2/2014, 12:36:59 AM2 votes

Lucian is already high on mobility for an ADC with it being a pretty easy argument that the only one with more mobility is Sivir. Granting this sort of cooldown on his E without nerfing his kit in some other manner (and not just mana cost, that isn't sufficient) would give Lucian too strong of a mobility presence in my opinion,

Knight Devout3/3/2014, 8:54:55 AM1 votes

I agree in the general idea, but I think that you don't know how many shot Lucian fires during The Culling. With that reduction it would be almost a istant reset at level 18. It could work tho, just not with that values.