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The Book of Aphelios

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Master Tier In-Depth ADC Lucian Guide Season 12

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thanksss

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very good

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I usually use the quick blades im not sure if you have tried them Vapora but they are really nice on Lucian especially late game, you will never not be shooting a Lightslinger pretty much and you will shred people and your E dash comes back really really fast. But I don't play him adc, I hate adc. I play him Jungle and top.

Great guide, helpful

very helpful guide

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This is a great guide, thank you for putting it together! I'm a huge fan of marksmen and, like a lot of folks probably, this Pulsefire event is my first intro to Lucian and I'm having a great time trying him out, and this guide just put the fun to a new level. Thank you!

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Damn this is an awesome guide,it just has so much content, I read it between matches, during champ select etc. Have been doing this all day and still have not went through everything.

I dont know if anybody will see this, but Zac support is super good with Lucian and nobody talks about that.

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***********ing the best build I saw in my ****ing life!!

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So isn't the new Essene reaver something Lucian has waited for his whole life lmao? Why not put it in every build? It's also a great second item after IE since Tons of AD. What do you think?

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Bork build was stronger before ER was reworked and it still is now. You can optionally use ER as your 6th item in the Bork build but using a more defensive item like GA or BT is more common.

There's a chance ER might be a good 2nd item in the Bork build instead of Cleaver but I'm waiting to see more evidence of that before I make changes to the guide.

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Ofcourse. Thanks for adressing my question.

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Solid guide, thanks for all the effort. I enjoy your guides, especially because you breakdown certain ability usages like Lucian's q here. Some things are obvious, but when picking up a new champ it helps to get reminded or told how to play more efficiently or intentionally

Nice guide! It helped me a lot. Thank you

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I have been building second and doing extremely well (using klepto Lucian). What are your thoughts on on Lucian? I understand that is good as a second, but the mobility from Trin and is really nice and the damage is really good since Lucian is designed to auto after every ability.

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The main problem with is that the passive has way too high a cooldown for the speed with which wants to spam his spells, making and other more AD-oriented items better for his needs. It's not a bad item per say, just not the best item he can build. You can build it for fun and it won't perform that much worse than the meta build, but I don't think it's ever better.

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Not to mention that the reworks of v5.22 through v6.10 were a massive Indirect Nerfs towards 's old build style which both nerfed then removed the stats & later replaced it with , While received random stat & passive changes along with . Then lastly, loses the AP & gains CDR.

Would have been funny to see the Icy passive on old applied to , unfortunately, Icy was removed during the same patch release of in patch v3.10a.

Stat changes(Patch History since 's release):

v3.10a
UNIQUE Passive - Icy removed
New UNIQUE Passive - Rage: basic attacks grant 20 movement speed for 2 seconds on hit. Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds
UNIQUE Passive - Spellblade
Damage increased to 200% base attack damage (from 150%)
Due to Phage's price reduction, total cost is now 3628 gold (from 3843)

v3.12

Total cost increased to 3728 gold (from 3628)
UNIQUE Passive – Rage: movement speed bonus now halved for ranged champions

v5.22
TOTAL COST : [3703 gold] ⇒ 3800 gold
BUILD PATH : Zeal + Sheen + Phage + 300 gold
MANA : [200] ⇒ 250
MOVEMENT SPEED : [8%] ⇒ 5%
CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE : [10%] ⇒ 20%
ATTACK SPEED : [30%] ⇒ 15%
ATTACK DAMAGE : [30] ⇒ 25
ABILITY POWER [30] ⇒ 0
COOLDOWN REDUCTION 10%

v5.24
Sike! Not all Zeal items are more expensive.
Used far less as a true marksman item, we didn’t want ol’ Tons of Damage to be negatively impacted when we were hitting Zeal. Carry on, Trinity Force.

COMBINE COST : [300] ⇒ 200
TOTAL COST : Unchanged

::RIP TRI-FORCE::
v6.10
Builds out of Stinger instead of Zeal. Critical strike chance removed, cooldown reduction and attack speed increased. Cost down, combine cost is now a bunch of threes.
As Sheen's offensive AD upgrade, Trinity Force promises mid-game dominance through double the Spellblade damage of its component item. By contrast, Iceborn Gauntlet is the upgrade for champions that can take advantage of its utility. That separation’s been a bit fuzzy this season, with many toplaners picking Iceborn to straight-up outduel their opponent. While this was partially due to Iceborn being overtuned, we also realized Trinity Force was suffering from a lack of focus.

The best Trinity Force users reliably proc Spellblade on cooldown - Jax, Irelia, and friends wield equal blends of abilities and basic attacks to deal damage. That combat pattern is key: it means Trinity Force users don't rely on hyperscaling basic attacks to fight enemy champions. With that in mind, Zeal is a marksman-shaped peg jammed into a fighter-shaped hole. It fits... just not perfectly. Stinger is better suited for the job: attacking faster and casting spells faster squares with the goal of maximizing Spellblade uptime. With new focus, Trinity Force is better than ever at fueling the mid game pain train for champs that want to play the Spellblade game.

BUILD PATH : [Sheen + Phage + Zeal + 200 gold] ⇒ Sheen + Phage + Stinger + 333 gold
TOTAL COST : [3800 gold] ⇒ 3733 gold
ATTACK SPEED : [15%] ⇒ 40%
COOLDOWN REDUCTION : [10%] ⇒ 20%
CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE [20%] ⇒ 0%

As you can see, has received a bit of work; some of it because of , other Majorities are , , , , etc... & it's never going to be the same again.

The item lost out on its crit & attack damage, along with a bit of its mobility. It's definitely not worth the amount of gold you're spending for . You'd do 8x better with & a Zeal Item like or Crit/Sustain item, .

Also, sorry for the Necro, but this is something that should get out there. (Did alot of micro-BB-code color managing to show the good, bad, & ugly.)

I'd also like to note that in Season 3 through 5, was an intended Raw Stat item that was a focus build item for Marksman & Fighter roles alike. The eventual removal of was a result of the above paragraph, which is still an unclear decision given all of the work from Riot to keep the Critical Strike component relevant for the few seasons it played a role in, in favor of Marksman & Fighter Roles.

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