This meta overview presents LUCIAN’s ranked performance across different roles and skill tiers. The data includes tier placement, win rate, pick rate, ban rate, and short-term trends, allowing you to evaluate her current strength and draft priority. Statistics are synced with rank buckets and role selection, helping you understand where LUCIAN performs best and how her impact changes in the evolving Wild Rift meta.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Adc Line LUCIAN. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Essence Reaver
Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification
+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Casting an ability generates a Spellblade charge (max 2 charges) that lasts up to 10 second(s). Hitting an enemy with an attack consumes a charge, dealing 70 bonus
as physical damage and granting 40 Movement Speed for 2 second(s). This bonus damage can Critically Strike. Each ability generates only one charge per 2 second(s).
Mana Siphon: Attacks restore 3% missing
Mana on-hit.
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item is perfect for hybrid auto‑attack champions who need mana sustain and enhanced damage after casting abilities. It boosts ability haste, and after using a skill, your next basic attack hits harder and grants a burst of movement speed. Additionally, auto‑attacks restore a portion of your missing mana, keeping you in fights longer. — A great pick for marksmen and fighters who weave spells into their auto‑attack rotations for maximum DPS and mana sustainability.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Magnetic Blaster
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+35% Attack Speed
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Energized: Moving and attacking will generate an Energized Attack.
Power Blitz: Energized Attacks gain 100 range (50 range for melee attacks), deal 40-100 bonus magic damage, and grant 60 Movement Speed for 0.75 seconds. This damage bounces to 5 nearby enemies and can Critically Strike.
(Deals 50-80% bonus damage against minions.)
3000
Magnetic Blaster TIPS: This item extends your attack range and adds hybrid damage by empowering every fourth attack with a magic burst that can bounce to multiple targets and critically strike. Moving and attacking charges the empowered strike, and upon activation you gain a hefty movement speed boost, aiding both chase and retreat. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who want more reach, multi‑target damage, and extra mobility in skirmishes.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Immortal Treds
Deal bonus damage or gain increased healing and shielding
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
Now and Forever: When you have more than 50% Health, deal 5% bonus damage. When below 50% Health, gain 12% increased healing and shielding.
2000
Immortal Treds TIPS: These boots combine adaptive offensive power, sustain, and increased combat effectiveness. While above 50% Health, you deal increased damage, and when below 50% Health, you benefit from stronger healing and shielding to improve your survivability. The additional Omnivamp further restores Health from all damage you deal. They are an excellent choice for fighters, AP bruisers, and champions who want to balance offensive power with sustained durability throughout extended fights.
Essence Reaver (Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification) as your first item, followed by
Gluttonous Greaves (Grants Attack Damage and Omnivamp) (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Magnetic Blaster (Increases attack range and damage).
Immortal Treds (Deal bonus damage or gain increased healing and shielding).
Essence Reaver
Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification
+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Casting an ability generates a Spellblade charge (max 2 charges) that lasts up to 10 second(s). Hitting an enemy with an attack consumes a charge, dealing 70 bonus
as physical damage and granting 40 Movement Speed for 2 second(s). This bonus damage can Critically Strike. Each ability generates only one charge per 2 second(s).
Mana Siphon: Attacks restore 3% missing
Mana on-hit.
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item is perfect for hybrid auto‑attack champions who need mana sustain and enhanced damage after casting abilities. It boosts ability haste, and after using a skill, your next basic attack hits harder and grants a burst of movement speed. Additionally, auto‑attacks restore a portion of your missing mana, keeping you in fights longer. — A great pick for marksmen and fighters who weave spells into their auto‑attack rotations for maximum DPS and mana sustainability.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Magnetic Blaster
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+35% Attack Speed
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Energized: Moving and attacking will generate an Energized Attack.
Power Blitz: Energized Attacks gain 100 range (50 range for melee attacks), deal 40-100 bonus magic damage, and grant 60 Movement Speed for 0.75 seconds. This damage bounces to 5 nearby enemies and can Critically Strike.
(Deals 50-80% bonus damage against minions.)
3000
Magnetic Blaster TIPS: This item extends your attack range and adds hybrid damage by empowering every fourth attack with a magic burst that can bounce to multiple targets and critically strike. Moving and attacking charges the empowered strike, and upon activation you gain a hefty movement speed boost, aiding both chase and retreat. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who want more reach, multi‑target damage, and extra mobility in skirmishes.
Dominik’s Regards
Already equipped with percentage armor penetration and bonus damage, but lacks durability
+25 Attack Damage
+36% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the target’s bonus Health. At 1500 bonus Health, the bonus damage is increased up to 15%.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: Is built to punish bulky foes. It converts a chunk of your offensive power into armor penetration and adds bonus damage that scales with the enemy’s extra health, making it a go-to pick when the enemy team stacks HP and armor. Because it focuses on penetration and damage rather than survivability, use it when you need to cut through tanky targets quickly while relying on positioning or teammates for protection.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+65 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 205% damage instead of 175%.
Limit Break: When your total
gain from items exceeds 100%, every 1% excess
grants 0.6 bonus Critical Damage.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item greatly amplifies your auto‑attack power by boosting the base damage of critical strikes and granting extra critical damage when your total crit chance from items is capped. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters looking to maximize their crit damage and squeeze even more value out of high crit chance builds.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Dominik’s Regards
Already equipped with percentage armor penetration and bonus damage, but lacks durability
+25 Attack Damage
+36% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the target’s bonus Health. At 1500 bonus Health, the bonus damage is increased up to 15%.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: Is built to punish bulky foes. It converts a chunk of your offensive power into armor penetration and adds bonus damage that scales with the enemy’s extra health, making it a go-to pick when the enemy team stacks HP and armor. Because it focuses on penetration and damage rather than survivability, use it when you need to cut through tanky targets quickly while relying on positioning or teammates for protection.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Mortal Reminder — This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+45 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 100% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (180s Cooldown)
3200
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Guardian Angel — This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Serpent's Fang
Anti-Shielding
+50 Attack Damage
+10 Ability Haste
Stab:
+15 Armor Penetration.
Shield Reaver: Dealing damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3s. Melee champions apply (10% of bonus AD
+ 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%; while ranged champions apply (10% of bonus AD
+ 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Shield Reaver, all shields on them are reduced by the same values.
2800
Serpent's Fang TIPS: This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
Serpent's Fang — This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Mercurial Scimitar
Dispels crowd control
+45 Attack Damage
+10% Physical Vamp
+40 Magic Resistance
Quicksilver Sash (Active): Removes all crowd control debuffs from you and grants immunity to crowd control for 0.25s.
Perseverance (Passive): When the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.
3100
Mercurial Scimitar TIPS: This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Mercurial Scimitar — This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Exhaust (Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed and their damage dealt) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Empowerment (Gain damage amplification after every third consecutive attack on the enemy.) as your keystone, followed by
Brutal (Attacks deal bonus damage to enemy champions.),
Coup de Grace (Increases damage dealt to enemy champions with low Health.) and
Legend: Bloodline (Gains Omnivamp.) in the primary tree, as well as
Sudden Impact (After dashing or exiting invisibility/stealth, your next damaging attack or ability deals true damage on hit. The attack/ability gains bonus effects at higher levels.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Empowerment
Increased damage against champions
Hitting an enemy champion with 3 consecutive attacks deals bonus adaptive damage and amplifies your damage dealt by 8% until you leave combat with champions.
Adaptive Damage: 40-165 (
)
Cooldown: 4s.
Damage amplification will only take effect against champions.
Brutal
Attacks deal on-hit damage
Attacks deal (5 + 6% bonus
+ 3%
) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Legend: Bloodline
Increase Omnivamp
Gains 1% Omnivamp
. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 7% Omnivamp
.
Sudden Impact
Triggers when in stealth or dashing
Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 15-65 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s.
The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
Level 5: Deal an additional 5 true damage.
Level 9: Deal an additional 5 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.
Cooldown: 10s
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Cut Down
Deal more damage to high Health enemies
Your attacks deal 6.57% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with more than 60% Health.
Cut Down — This rune increases damage against high-health targets, helping you deal with tanky enemies more effectively. It is ideal for champions who rely on consistent damage output, especially against tanks and durable fighters. It works best on marksmen and some fighters where efficiently shredding high-health targets is important.
Legend: Bloodline
Increase Omnivamp
Gains 1% Omnivamp
. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 7% Omnivamp
.
Legend: Alacrity
Increase bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 18% Attack Speed.
Legend: Alacrity — The rune increases your attack speed by 3% and grants additional attack speed for each takedown of monsters, enemy champions, or minions, up to 20%. This makes it a great choice for champions who actively engage in fights and farm, such as fighters or junglers. The rune helps quickly ramp up attack speed, enhancing your aggressive playstyle and effectiveness in extended fights.
Sudden Impact
Triggers when in stealth or dashing
Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 15-65 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s.
The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
Level 5: Deal an additional 5 true damage.
Level 9: Deal an additional 5 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.
Cooldown: 10s
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.
(Q) PIERCING LIGHT
9.5/8/6.5/5s
50/60/70/80
Shoots a bolt of piercing light through an enemy unit, damaging enemies in a line for 80 physical damage (80/125/170/215 + 65/85/105/125% bonus
).
Decreases as attack speed increases (fastest when the bonus attack speed reaches 140%).
(W) ARDENT BLAZE
13/11.5/10/8.5s
70
Fires a shot that explodes at the end of its range or on the first enemy hit, dealing 75 magic damage (75/125/175/225 + 90%
). briefly revealing enemies and marking them for 6 seconds.
When Lucian or an ally damage a market enemy, Lucian gains 65/70/75/80 Movement Speed for 1 second. When allied champions trigger the mark, it grants Lucian Vigilance.
(E) RELENTLESS PURSUIT
20.5/18/15.5/13s
45/30/15/0
Quickly dashes a short distance.
Cooldown is reduced by 1 second whenever Lucian hits an enemy with Lightslinger (2 seconds for champions).
(R) THE CULLING
70/65/60s
100
Fires rapidly in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 36 physical damage (20/35/50 + 25%
+ 10%
) to the first enemy hit. Total 729 physical damage.
Number of shots: 22/26/30.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during the Culling.
Recast to cancel early.
Minions take 200% damage from The Culling.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Adc LUCIAN. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Adc LUCIAN in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
2650
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Warden's Mail
Reduces enemy's Attack Speed
+35 Armor
Cold Steel: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemies by 15% for 1.5 seconds when struck by an attack.
1050
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
2650
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Seeker's Armguard
Turn invulnerable
+20 Armor
+35 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)
1200
Seeker's Armguard TIPS: This item combines Ability Power with extra defense, but its defining feature is the ability to become temporarily invulnerable. Its active effect lets you completely avoid lethal damage, dodge crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to return. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to survive burst damage and outplay opponents in critical teamfights.
Zhonya's Hourglass
Turn invulnerable
+40 Armor
+110 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (90s Cooldown)
3300
Zhonya's Hourglass TIPS: This item combines high Ability Power with extra armor, while its defining feature is the ability to become completely invulnerable for a short time. Its active effect allows you to survive lethal damage, avoid crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to recover. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to outlive enemy focus and turn the tide of a teamfight.
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (5 + 1-15 (
) + 15% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
3300
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities apply slows
+350 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
Icy: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 0.75 second.
2700
Rylai's Crystal Scepter TIPS: This item enhances your crowd control by causing your abilities and empowered attacks to slow enemies with every hit. The bonus health improves your durability, while the consistent slow makes it much easier to land follow-up abilities, chase fleeing targets, and support your teammates. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and champions who rely on keeping enemies within the range of their abilities.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+15% Attack Speed
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 100% AD
as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 40% for 3s (25s cooldown)
Stride (Passive): Gain 20 Movement Speed for 2 second(s) when you deal physical damage.
3100
Stridebreaker TIPS: This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Locket of the Iron Solari
Team shield
+200 Max Health
+30 Armor
+30 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 250-370 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds.
2600
Locket of the Iron Solari TIPS: This item provides powerful team-wide protection during fights. Its active grants a shield to you and nearby allies, helping your team survive burst damage and reducing the impact of enemy engages. It is an excellent choice for tanks and supports who stay close to their teammates and want to maximize their team's survivability in teamfights.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
2900
Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Mid Line LUCIAN. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Essence Reaver
Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification
+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Casting an ability generates a Spellblade charge (max 2 charges) that lasts up to 10 second(s). Hitting an enemy with an attack consumes a charge, dealing 70 bonus
as physical damage and granting 40 Movement Speed for 2 second(s). This bonus damage can Critically Strike. Each ability generates only one charge per 2 second(s).
Mana Siphon: Attacks restore 3% missing
Mana on-hit.
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item is perfect for hybrid auto‑attack champions who need mana sustain and enhanced damage after casting abilities. It boosts ability haste, and after using a skill, your next basic attack hits harder and grants a burst of movement speed. Additionally, auto‑attacks restore a portion of your missing mana, keeping you in fights longer. — A great pick for marksmen and fighters who weave spells into their auto‑attack rotations for maximum DPS and mana sustainability.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Magnetic Blaster
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+35% Attack Speed
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Energized: Moving and attacking will generate an Energized Attack.
Power Blitz: Energized Attacks gain 100 range (50 range for melee attacks), deal 40-100 bonus magic damage, and grant 60 Movement Speed for 0.75 seconds. This damage bounces to 5 nearby enemies and can Critically Strike.
(Deals 50-80% bonus damage against minions.)
3000
Magnetic Blaster TIPS: This item extends your attack range and adds hybrid damage by empowering every fourth attack with a magic burst that can bounce to multiple targets and critically strike. Moving and attacking charges the empowered strike, and upon activation you gain a hefty movement speed boost, aiding both chase and retreat. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who want more reach, multi‑target damage, and extra mobility in skirmishes.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Immortal Treds
Deal bonus damage or gain increased healing and shielding
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
Now and Forever: When you have more than 50% Health, deal 5% bonus damage. When below 50% Health, gain 12% increased healing and shielding.
2000
Immortal Treds TIPS: These boots combine adaptive offensive power, sustain, and increased combat effectiveness. While above 50% Health, you deal increased damage, and when below 50% Health, you benefit from stronger healing and shielding to improve your survivability. The additional Omnivamp further restores Health from all damage you deal. They are an excellent choice for fighters, AP bruisers, and champions who want to balance offensive power with sustained durability throughout extended fights.
Essence Reaver (Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification) as your first item, followed by
Gluttonous Greaves (Grants Attack Damage and Omnivamp) (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Magnetic Blaster (Increases attack range and damage).
Immortal Treds (Deal bonus damage or gain increased healing and shielding).
Essence Reaver
Attacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification
+40 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Casting an ability generates a Spellblade charge (max 2 charges) that lasts up to 10 second(s). Hitting an enemy with an attack consumes a charge, dealing 70 bonus
as physical damage and granting 40 Movement Speed for 2 second(s). This bonus damage can Critically Strike. Each ability generates only one charge per 2 second(s).
Mana Siphon: Attacks restore 3% missing
Mana on-hit.
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item is perfect for hybrid auto‑attack champions who need mana sustain and enhanced damage after casting abilities. It boosts ability haste, and after using a skill, your next basic attack hits harder and grants a burst of movement speed. Additionally, auto‑attacks restore a portion of your missing mana, keeping you in fights longer. — A great pick for marksmen and fighters who weave spells into their auto‑attack rotations for maximum DPS and mana sustainability.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp
+45 Move Speed
Balance of Power: Gain 12 Attack Damage
or 20 Ability Power
(Adaptive).
Conversion: Gain 5% Omnivamp
. Champion takedowns grant an additional 0.5% Omnivamp
, up to 5%.
1000
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots combine mobility, adaptive offensive power, and sustained healing. They increase your damage while Omnivamp restores health from all damage you deal. Champion takedowns further increase your Omnivamp, making them an excellent choice for champions who want to balance high damage output with strong sustain during extended fights.
Magnetic Blaster
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+35% Attack Speed
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Energized: Moving and attacking will generate an Energized Attack.
Power Blitz: Energized Attacks gain 100 range (50 range for melee attacks), deal 40-100 bonus magic damage, and grant 60 Movement Speed for 0.75 seconds. This damage bounces to 5 nearby enemies and can Critically Strike.
(Deals 50-80% bonus damage against minions.)
3000
Magnetic Blaster TIPS: This item extends your attack range and adds hybrid damage by empowering every fourth attack with a magic burst that can bounce to multiple targets and critically strike. Moving and attacking charges the empowered strike, and upon activation you gain a hefty movement speed boost, aiding both chase and retreat. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who want more reach, multi‑target damage, and extra mobility in skirmishes.
Dominik’s Regards
Already equipped with percentage armor penetration and bonus damage, but lacks durability
+25 Attack Damage
+36% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the target’s bonus Health. At 1500 bonus Health, the bonus damage is increased up to 15%.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: Is built to punish bulky foes. It converts a chunk of your offensive power into armor penetration and adds bonus damage that scales with the enemy’s extra health, making it a go-to pick when the enemy team stacks HP and armor. Because it focuses on penetration and damage rather than survivability, use it when you need to cut through tanky targets quickly while relying on positioning or teammates for protection.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+65 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 205% damage instead of 175%.
Limit Break: When your total
gain from items exceeds 100%, every 1% excess
grants 0.6 bonus Critical Damage.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item greatly amplifies your auto‑attack power by boosting the base damage of critical strikes and granting extra critical damage when your total crit chance from items is capped. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters looking to maximize their crit damage and squeeze even more value out of high crit chance builds.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Dominik’s Regards
Already equipped with percentage armor penetration and bonus damage, but lacks durability
+25 Attack Damage
+36% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the target’s bonus Health. At 1500 bonus Health, the bonus damage is increased up to 15%.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: Is built to punish bulky foes. It converts a chunk of your offensive power into armor penetration and adds bonus damage that scales with the enemy’s extra health, making it a go-to pick when the enemy team stacks HP and armor. Because it focuses on penetration and damage rather than survivability, use it when you need to cut through tanky targets quickly while relying on positioning or teammates for protection.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Mortal Reminder — This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Serpent's Fang
Anti-Shielding
+50 Attack Damage
+10 Ability Haste
Stab:
+15 Armor Penetration.
Shield Reaver: Dealing damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3s. Melee champions apply (10% of bonus AD
+ 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%; while ranged champions apply (10% of bonus AD
+ 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Shield Reaver, all shields on them are reduced by the same values.
2800
Serpent's Fang TIPS: This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
Serpent's Fang — This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Lifeline: Upon taking Magic Damage that would reduce your Health to below 35%, gain
+10% Omni Vamp. until the end of combat and a magic shield that absorbs 220-530 Magic Damage for 3s. (70s Cooldown)
3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item provides a mix of damage, magic resistance and ability haste, but its core value is the anti-burst passive: when hit by a dangerous burst of magic damage, you instantly gain a strong protective shield and a temporary lifesteal/omnivamp effect that lasts through the fight. It lets you survive big AP detonations and re-enter skirmishes quickly. Best for assassins, bruisers and AD champions who need to survive enemy magic burst and power through fights.
Maw of Malmortius — This item provides a mix of damage, magic resistance and ability haste, but its core value is the anti-burst passive: when hit by a dangerous burst of magic damage, you instantly gain a strong protective shield and a temporary lifesteal/omnivamp effect that lasts through the fight. It lets you survive big AP detonations and re-enter skirmishes quickly. Best for assassins, bruisers and AD champions who need to survive enemy magic burst and power through fights.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+45 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 100% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (180s Cooldown)
3200
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Guardian Angel — This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Bloodthirster
Increases Physical Vamp
+55 Attack Damage
+250 Max Health
+25% Critical Rate
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3000
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a staple for auto-attack carries, providing a strong boost to damage, critical chance, and attack speed. Its passive converts critical strikes into enhanced lifesteal, making extended trades and sustained fights lean in your favor. When you fall into critical health, a lifesaving shield activates, granting extra defenses and a chance to survive clutch moments. Ideal for marksmen and auto-attack fighters who need both high DPS and reliable sustain.
Mercurial Scimitar
Dispels crowd control
+45 Attack Damage
+10% Physical Vamp
+40 Magic Resistance
Quicksilver Sash (Active): Removes all crowd control debuffs from you and grants immunity to crowd control for 0.25s.
Perseverance (Passive): When the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.
3100
Mercurial Scimitar TIPS: This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Mercurial Scimitar — This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Ignite (Ignites target enemy champion, dealing true damageand applying Grievous Wounds for the duration. Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Empowerment (Gain damage amplification after every third consecutive attack on the enemy.) as your keystone, followed by
Brutal (Attacks deal bonus damage to enemy champions.),
Coup de Grace (Increases damage dealt to enemy champions with low Health.) and
Legend: Bloodline (Gains Omnivamp.) in the primary tree, as well as
Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Empowerment
Increased damage against champions
Hitting an enemy champion with 3 consecutive attacks deals bonus adaptive damage and amplifies your damage dealt by 8% until you leave combat with champions.
Adaptive Damage: 40-165 (
)
Cooldown: 4s.
Damage amplification will only take effect against champions.
Brutal
Attacks deal on-hit damage
Attacks deal (5 + 6% bonus
+ 3%
) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Legend: Bloodline
Increase Omnivamp
Gains 1% Omnivamp
. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 7% Omnivamp
.
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Cut Down
Deal more damage to high Health enemies
Your attacks deal 6.57% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with more than 60% Health.
Cut Down — This rune increases damage against high-health targets, helping you deal with tanky enemies more effectively. It is ideal for champions who rely on consistent damage output, especially against tanks and durable fighters. It works best on marksmen and some fighters where efficiently shredding high-health targets is important.
Legend: Bloodline
Increase Omnivamp
Gains 1% Omnivamp
. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 7% Omnivamp
.
Legend: Alacrity
Increase bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 18% Attack Speed.
Legend: Alacrity — The rune increases your attack speed by 3% and grants additional attack speed for each takedown of monsters, enemy champions, or minions, up to 20%. This makes it a great choice for champions who actively engage in fights and farm, such as fighters or junglers. The rune helps quickly ramp up attack speed, enhancing your aggressive playstyle and effectiveness in extended fights.
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Sudden Impact
Triggers when in stealth or dashing
Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 15-65 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s.
The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
Level 5: Deal an additional 5 true damage.
Level 9: Deal an additional 5 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.
Cooldown: 10s
Sudden Impact — The rune that activates after using dashes, teleports, leaps, or exiting stealth deals bonus true damage to the enemy. This mechanic enhances aggressive play by allowing fast movement across the map and delivering powerful strikes. At higher levels, it provides additional damage and movement speed bonuses, increasing mobility and effectiveness in fights. This makes it a great choice for champions who rely on mobility and want to enhance their attacks after quick movements or stealth.
(Q) PIERCING LIGHT
9.5/8/6.5/5s
50/60/70/80
Shoots a bolt of piercing light through an enemy unit, damaging enemies in a line for 80 physical damage (80/125/170/215 + 65/85/105/125% bonus
).
Decreases as attack speed increases (fastest when the bonus attack speed reaches 140%).
(W) ARDENT BLAZE
13/11.5/10/8.5s
70
Fires a shot that explodes at the end of its range or on the first enemy hit, dealing 75 magic damage (75/125/175/225 + 90%
). briefly revealing enemies and marking them for 6 seconds.
When Lucian or an ally damage a market enemy, Lucian gains 65/70/75/80 Movement Speed for 1 second. When allied champions trigger the mark, it grants Lucian Vigilance.
(E) RELENTLESS PURSUIT
20.5/18/15.5/13s
45/30/15/0
Quickly dashes a short distance.
Cooldown is reduced by 1 second whenever Lucian hits an enemy with Lightslinger (2 seconds for champions).
(R) THE CULLING
70/65/60s
100
Fires rapidly in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 36 physical damage (20/35/50 + 25%
+ 10%
) to the first enemy hit. Total 729 physical damage.
Number of shots: 22/26/30.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during the Culling.
Recast to cancel early.
Minions take 200% damage from The Culling.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Mid LUCIAN. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Mid LUCIAN in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
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Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Warden's Mail
Reduces enemy's Attack Speed
+35 Armor
Cold Steel: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemies by 15% for 1.5 seconds when struck by an attack.
1050
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
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Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Seeker's Armguard
Turn invulnerable
+20 Armor
+35 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)
1200
Seeker's Armguard TIPS: This item combines Ability Power with extra defense, but its defining feature is the ability to become temporarily invulnerable. Its active effect lets you completely avoid lethal damage, dodge crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to return. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to survive burst damage and outplay opponents in critical teamfights.
Zhonya's Hourglass
Turn invulnerable
+40 Armor
+110 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (90s Cooldown)
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Zhonya's Hourglass TIPS: This item combines high Ability Power with extra armor, while its defining feature is the ability to become completely invulnerable for a short time. Its active effect allows you to survive lethal damage, avoid crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to recover. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to outlive enemy focus and turn the tide of a teamfight.
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (5 + 1-15 (
) + 15% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
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Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities apply slows
+350 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
Icy: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 0.75 second.
2700
Rylai's Crystal Scepter TIPS: This item enhances your crowd control by causing your abilities and empowered attacks to slow enemies with every hit. The bonus health improves your durability, while the consistent slow makes it much easier to land follow-up abilities, chase fleeing targets, and support your teammates. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and champions who rely on keeping enemies within the range of their abilities.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
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Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+15% Attack Speed
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 100% AD
as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 40% for 3s (25s cooldown)
Stride (Passive): Gain 20 Movement Speed for 2 second(s) when you deal physical damage.
3100
Stridebreaker TIPS: This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
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Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Locket of the Iron Solari
Team shield
+200 Max Health
+30 Armor
+30 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 250-370 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds.
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Locket of the Iron Solari TIPS: This item provides powerful team-wide protection during fights. Its active grants a shield to you and nearby allies, helping your team survive burst damage and reducing the impact of enemy engages. It is an excellent choice for tanks and supports who stay close to their teammates and want to maximize their team's survivability in teamfights.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
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Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
LIGHTSLINGER
PIERCING LIGHT
ARDENT BLAZE
RELENTLESS PURSUIT
THE CULLING

After using an Ability, Lucian's next attack within 3.5 seconds will fire two shots.
The second shot deals 35/50/65%% (increasing at Level 1/6/11) physical damage, increased to 100%
against minions. The second shot is a separate Attack that deals on-hit effects and can critical strike.
Vigilance: When healed or shielded by allied champions, or when a nearby enemy champion is immobilized, Lucian's next two attacks deal an additional 20 magic damage (20 + 10%
) (stores up to four empowered attacks).

9.5/8/6.5/5s
50/60/70/80
Shoots a bolt of piercing light through an enemy unit, damaging enemies in a line for 80 physical damage (80/125/170/215 + 65/85/105/125% bonus
).
Decreases as attack speed increases (fastest when the bonus attack speed reaches 140%).

13/11.5/10/8.5s
70
Fires a shot that explodes at the end of its range or on the first enemy hit, dealing 75 magic damage (75/125/175/225 + 90%
). briefly revealing enemies and marking them for 6 seconds.
When Lucian or an ally damage a market enemy, Lucian gains 65/70/75/80 Movement Speed for 1 second. When allied champions trigger the mark, it grants Lucian Vigilance.

70/65/60s
100
Fires rapidly in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 36 physical damage (20/35/50 + 25%
+ 10%
) to the first enemy hit. Total 729 physical damage.
Number of shots: 22/26/30.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during the Culling.
Recast to cancel early.
Minions take 200% damage from The Culling.
Use this combo to surprise All-In an enemy from a distance.
Use (W) ARDENT BLAZE, then FLASH immediately towards your target. Upon landing, AA, (E) RELENTLESS PURSUIT and AA. Finish with (Q) PIERCING LIGHT and AA. You can swap the order of (E) and (Q) in this combo depends on the situation.
Lucian, a Sentinel of Light, is a grim hunter of undying spirits, pursuing them relentlessly and annihilating them with his twin relic pistols. After the wraith Thresh slew his wife, Lucian embarked on the path of vengeance—but even with her return to life, his rage is undiminished. Merciless and single-minded, Lucian will stop at nothing to protect the living from the long-dead horrors of the Black Mist.