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 casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage
+50 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10s to deal bonus physical damage equal to 135% base AD plus 0–80 (increased by 0.8 per 1% Critical Rate) and restore 50% of this damage as Mana. (1.5s Cooldown)
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Critical Strike Chance, and Ability Haste, creating strong synergy between abilities and basic attacks. Using an ability empowers your next attack with bonus physical damage that becomes more effective in Critical Strike builds, while part of the damage dealt restores Mana. An excellent choice for AD champions who constantly weave abilities and basic attacks together and need reliable Mana sustain.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed
Blessed Blade: Attacks restore 10 Health on hit.
1200
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Navori Quickblades
Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Deft Strikes: Attacks reduce the remaining cooldowns of your basic abilities by 15%.
2650
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, allowing you to use your basic abilities much more frequently. Each attack reduces their remaining cooldowns, creating strong synergy between basic attacks and abilities. An excellent choice for marksmen and other champions who constantly weave attacks and basic abilities together.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed
Blessed Blade: Attacks restore 10 Health on hit.
1200
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Gunmetal Greaves
Increases Attack Speed and Movement Speed
+50% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed
+5% Lifesteal
Noxian Gait: Attacks against enemy champions grant Movement Speed (10% for melee champions / 7% for ranged champions) decaying over 2 seconds.
Blessed Blade: Attacks restore 12 Health on hit.
2200
Gunmetal Greaves TIPS: These boots significantly increase Attack Speed while also providing Movement Speed and Lifesteal, making them well suited for champions who rely on frequent basic attacks. Attacking enemy champions temporarily increases Movement Speed, making it easier to chase and reposition, while each hit also restores Health. An excellent choice for auto-attackers who need mobility and consistent sustain in combat.
Essence Reaver (Attacks casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage) as your first item, followed by
Berserker's Greaves (Grants Attack Speed) (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
Navori Quickblades (Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns).
Gunmetal Greaves (Increases Attack Speed and Movement Speed).
Essence Reaver
Attacks casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage
+50 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10s to deal bonus physical damage equal to 135% base AD plus 0–80 (increased by 0.8 per 1% Critical Rate) and restore 50% of this damage as Mana. (1.5s Cooldown)
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Critical Strike Chance, and Ability Haste, creating strong synergy between abilities and basic attacks. Using an ability empowers your next attack with bonus physical damage that becomes more effective in Critical Strike builds, while part of the damage dealt restores Mana. An excellent choice for AD champions who constantly weave abilities and basic attacks together and need reliable Mana sustain.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed
Blessed Blade: Attacks restore 10 Health on hit.
1200
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Navori Quickblades
Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Deft Strikes: Attacks reduce the remaining cooldowns of your basic abilities by 15%.
2650
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, allowing you to use your basic abilities much more frequently. Each attack reduces their remaining cooldowns, creating strong synergy between basic attacks and abilities. An excellent choice for marksmen and other champions who constantly weave attacks and basic abilities together.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+75 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 230% damage instead of 200%.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item significantly increases Attack Damage and Critical Strike Chance while also increasing the damage dealt by Critical Strikes. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions focused on Critical Strike builds, especially in the later stages of the game when a high Critical Strike Chance allows you to make the most of its damage amplification.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+35 Attack Damage
+30% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3000
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with armored enemies. Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and health regeneration. An excellent choice against teams with high Armor, healing, and regeneration.
Mortal Reminder — This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with armored enemies. Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and health regeneration. An excellent choice against teams with high Armor, healing, and regeneration.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Rapid Firecannon
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Sharpshooter: Moving and attacking generates an Energized Attack with 35% bonus Attack Range (max 150 range) that deals 80 bonus magic damage.
2650
Rapid Firecannon TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, improving the effectiveness of basic attacks. Moving and attacking charges an empowered attack that gains increased range and deals bonus magic damage. An excellent choice for marksmen who want to safely land their first hit from greater distance while maintaining high mobility in combat.
Rapid Firecannon — This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, improving the effectiveness of basic attacks. Moving and attacking charges an empowered attack that gains increased range and deals bonus magic damage. An excellent choice for marksmen who want to safely land their first hit from greater distance while maintaining high mobility in combat.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
The Collector
Execute low health champions
+50 Attack Damage
+10 Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below 5% of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector.
3000
The Collector TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, significantly improving your ability to finish off enemies. Champions at critically low Health are instantly executed when damaged, while each execution gradually increases the execution threshold and grants bonus gold. An excellent choice for marksmen, assassins, and other AD champions focused on quickly eliminating weakened targets.
The Collector — This item combines Attack Damage, Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, significantly improving your ability to finish off enemies. Champions at critically low Health are instantly executed when damaged, while each execution gradually increases the execution threshold and grants bonus gold. An excellent choice for marksmen, assassins, and other AD champions focused on quickly eliminating weakened targets.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
Mercurial Scimitar
Dispels crowd control
+45 Attack Damage
+12% Lifesteal
+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.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
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
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
Black Cleaver
Physical Damage reduces Armor
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+20 Ability Haste
Sunder: Dealing physical damage to a champion reduces their Armor by 6% for 6 seconds, stacking 5 times for 30% reduction.
Rage: Gain 20 Movement Speed when you deal physical damage. When moving toward enemy champions with 5 Sunder stacks, gain 40 Move Speed. Ranged champions gain halved values.
3000
Black Cleaver TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who deal physical damage and need to fight tanky opponents. The "Sunder" effect reduces the enemy’s armor when dealing physical damage, making it effective at shredding through tanks with high resistance. The movement speed bonus, activated when dealing physical damage, helps maintain mobility on the battlefield. It's a great choice for fighters and junglers who can quickly apply multiple stacks of the item’s passive, reducing the enemy's armor and increasing the overall damage dealt.
Black Cleaver — This item is perfect for champions who deal physical damage and need to fight tanky opponents. The "Sunder" effect reduces the enemy’s armor when dealing physical damage, making it effective at shredding through tanks with high resistance. The movement speed bonus, activated when dealing physical damage, helps maintain mobility on the battlefield. It's a great choice for fighters and junglers who can quickly apply multiple stacks of the item’s passive, reducing the enemy's armor and increasing the overall damage dealt.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
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.
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 75 physical damage (75/125/175/225 + 100% bonus
).
(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
Rapidly fires 20 shots (max 46 shots) in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 35 physical damage (20/25/30 + 25%
+ 15%
) to the first enemy hit.
Number of shots scales with Lucian's Critical Rate and Critical Damage at 100% effectiveness.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during The Culling.
Recast The Culling to stop firing 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
Block: Reduces damage from champion attacks by 10%.
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against champions who rely heavily on basic attacks. They increase your Health and Armor, while the passive further reduces damage taken from enemy champion attacks. An excellent choice against marksmen, AD fighters, and other auto-attack-focused champions.
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
+4% Movement 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 enemy Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+400 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemy champions within 650 units of you by 25%.
2550
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Armor, additional Mana, and Ability Haste, providing strong protection against physical damage. Nearby enemy champions have their Attack Speed reduced, making it especially effective against marksmen and other opponents who rely heavily on frequent basic attacks. An excellent choice for tanks and fighters against attack-focused team compositions.
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 enemy Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+400 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemy champions within 650 units of you by 25%.
2550
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Armor, additional Mana, and Ability Haste, providing strong protection against physical damage. Nearby enemy champions have their Attack Speed reduced, making it especially effective against marksmen and other opponents who rely heavily on frequent basic attacks. An excellent choice for tanks and fighters against attack-focused team compositions.
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
+50 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+15 Ability Haste
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies below 60% current Health by 30% Movement Speed for 1 second.
3100
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage through percentage Armor Penetration while allowing you to use abilities more frequently. Damaging wounded enemies with active abilities or empowered attacks also slows them, making it easier to chase or keep targets at a distance. An excellent choice for AD champions who rely on abilities and need effective Armor Penetration combined with additional control.
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
+300 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.
3000
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
+25% 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
+20% Tenacity
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 5 seconds (70s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size and grants 30% Tenacity for 8 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Health, crowd control resistance, and additional Attack Damage based on the champion's base Attack Damage. When your Health drops to a critical level, it grants a powerful shield that scales with bonus Health and temporarily provides even more Tenacity. An excellent choice for fighters and other AD champions who need additional survivability in extended and intense fights.
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 casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage
+50 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10s to deal bonus physical damage equal to 135% base AD plus 0–80 (increased by 0.8 per 1% Critical Rate) and restore 50% of this damage as Mana. (1.5s Cooldown)
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Critical Strike Chance, and Ability Haste, creating strong synergy between abilities and basic attacks. Using an ability empowers your next attack with bonus physical damage that becomes more effective in Critical Strike builds, while part of the damage dealt restores Mana. An excellent choice for AD champions who constantly weave abilities and basic attacks together and need reliable Mana sustain.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Reduces ability cooldowns
+50% Mana Regen
+15 Ability Haste
+45 Move Speed
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%.
1000
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: These boots are designed for champions who rely on casting abilities as often as possible. They provide mana regeneration, Ability Haste, and further reduce the cooldown of Summoner Spells, allowing you to use key abilities more frequently while bringing back Flash, Smite, Ignite, and other Summoner Spells faster. They are an excellent choice for mages, supports, fighters, and any champion who benefits from maximizing ability uptime.
Navori Quickblades
Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Deft Strikes: Attacks reduce the remaining cooldowns of your basic abilities by 15%.
2650
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, allowing you to use your basic abilities much more frequently. Each attack reduces their remaining cooldowns, creating strong synergy between basic attacks and abilities. An excellent choice for marksmen and other champions who constantly weave attacks and basic abilities together.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Reduces ability cooldowns
+50% Mana Regen
+15 Ability Haste
+45 Move Speed
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%.
1000
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: These boots are designed for champions who rely on casting abilities as often as possible. They provide mana regeneration, Ability Haste, and further reduce the cooldown of Summoner Spells, allowing you to use key abilities more frequently while bringing back Flash, Smite, Ignite, and other Summoner Spells faster. They are an excellent choice for mages, supports, fighters, and any champion who benefits from maximizing ability uptime.
Crimson Lucidity
Reduces ability cooldown
+75% Mana Regeneration
+25 Ability Haste
+45 Move Speed
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldown by 20%.
Noxian Haste: Healing or shielding allied champions, casting a spell, or dealing damage to enemies with abilities grants Movement Speed (10% for melee champions / 8% for ranged champions) for 4 seconds.
This effect can only be triggered once every 4 seconds per ability.
2000
Crimson Lucidity TIPS: These boots are ideal for champions who rely on casting abilities as often as possible. They greatly reduce the cooldown of both abilities and Summoner Spells while granting bonus movement speed whenever you heal or shield allies, cast spells, or damage enemies with abilities. They are an excellent choice for mages, supports, and fighters who value high mobility and maximum ability uptime.
Essence Reaver (Attacks casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage) as your first item, followed by
Ionian Boots of Lucidity (Reduces ability cooldowns) (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
Navori Quickblades (Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns).
Crimson Lucidity (Reduces ability cooldown).
Essence Reaver
Attacks casting an ability, your next attack deals bonus damage
+50 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+20 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10s to deal bonus physical damage equal to 135% base AD plus 0–80 (increased by 0.8 per 1% Critical Rate) and restore 50% of this damage as Mana. (1.5s Cooldown)
3000
Essence Reaver TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Critical Strike Chance, and Ability Haste, creating strong synergy between abilities and basic attacks. Using an ability empowers your next attack with bonus physical damage that becomes more effective in Critical Strike builds, while part of the damage dealt restores Mana. An excellent choice for AD champions who constantly weave abilities and basic attacks together and need reliable Mana sustain.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Reduces ability cooldowns
+50% Mana Regen
+15 Ability Haste
+45 Move Speed
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%.
1000
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: These boots are designed for champions who rely on casting abilities as often as possible. They provide mana regeneration, Ability Haste, and further reduce the cooldown of Summoner Spells, allowing you to use key abilities more frequently while bringing back Flash, Smite, Ignite, and other Summoner Spells faster. They are an excellent choice for mages, supports, fighters, and any champion who benefits from maximizing ability uptime.
Navori Quickblades
Attacks reduce basic ability cooldowns
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Deft Strikes: Attacks reduce the remaining cooldowns of your basic abilities by 15%.
2650
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, allowing you to use your basic abilities much more frequently. Each attack reduces their remaining cooldowns, creating strong synergy between basic attacks and abilities. An excellent choice for marksmen and other champions who constantly weave attacks and basic abilities together.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+75 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 230% damage instead of 200%.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item significantly increases Attack Damage and Critical Strike Chance while also increasing the damage dealt by Critical Strikes. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions focused on Critical Strike builds, especially in the later stages of the game when a high Critical Strike Chance allows you to make the most of its damage amplification.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+35 Attack Damage
+30% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3000
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with armored enemies. Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and health regeneration. An excellent choice against teams with high Armor, healing, and regeneration.
Mortal Reminder — This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with armored enemies. Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and health regeneration. An excellent choice against teams with high Armor, healing, and regeneration.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
Rapid Firecannon
Increases attack range and damage
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
+4% Move Speed
Sharpshooter: Moving and attacking generates an Energized Attack with 35% bonus Attack Range (max 150 range) that deals 80 bonus magic damage.
2650
Rapid Firecannon TIPS: This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, improving the effectiveness of basic attacks. Moving and attacking charges an empowered attack that gains increased range and deals bonus magic damage. An excellent choice for marksmen who want to safely land their first hit from greater distance while maintaining high mobility in combat.
Rapid Firecannon — This item combines Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, and mobility, improving the effectiveness of basic attacks. Moving and attacking charges an empowered attack that gains increased range and deals bonus magic damage. An excellent choice for marksmen who want to safely land their first hit from greater distance while maintaining high mobility in combat.
Dominik’s Regards
Armor Pen and bonus damage
+35 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Giant Slayer: Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus Health, up to 12% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1.200 bonus Health.
3300
Dominik’s Regards TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, percentage Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, allowing you to effectively deal with durable enemies. Your damage is further increased against champions with large amounts of bonus Health. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions against tanks and fighters who stack Armor and Health.
The Collector
Execute low health champions
+50 Attack Damage
+10 Armor Penetration
+25% Critical Rate
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below 5% of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector.
3000
The Collector TIPS: This item combines Attack Damage, Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, significantly improving your ability to finish off enemies. Champions at critically low Health are instantly executed when damaged, while each execution gradually increases the execution threshold and grants bonus gold. An excellent choice for marksmen, assassins, and other AD champions focused on quickly eliminating weakened targets.
The Collector — This item combines Attack Damage, Armor Penetration, and Critical Strike Chance, significantly improving your ability to finish off enemies. Champions at critically low Health are instantly executed when damaged, while each execution gradually increases the execution threshold and grants bonus gold. An excellent choice for marksmen, assassins, and other AD champions focused on quickly eliminating weakened targets.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
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
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
Mercurial Scimitar
Dispels crowd control
+45 Attack Damage
+12% Lifesteal
+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.
Bloodthirster
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
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
Gain Lifesteal and convert excess healing into a shield
+75 Attack Damage
+15% Lifesteal
Ichorshield: Convert excess healing from your Lifesteal to a shield that absorbs up to 165–345 damage.
3200
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage and Lifesteal, providing strong health recovery from attacks. Excess healing from Lifesteal is converted into a protective shield, allowing you to build additional protection before entering a fight. An excellent choice for marksmen and other AD champions who need high damage, sustained combat power, and extra survivability.
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.
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 75 physical damage (75/125/175/225 + 100% bonus
).
(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
Rapidly fires 20 shots (max 46 shots) in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 35 physical damage (20/25/30 + 25%
+ 15%
) to the first enemy hit.
Number of shots scales with Lucian's Critical Rate and Critical Damage at 100% effectiveness.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during The Culling.
Recast The Culling to stop firing 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
Block: Reduces damage from champion attacks by 10%.
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against champions who rely heavily on basic attacks. They increase your Health and Armor, while the passive further reduces damage taken from enemy champion attacks. An excellent choice against marksmen, AD fighters, and other auto-attack-focused champions.
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
+4% Movement 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 enemy Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+400 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemy champions within 650 units of you by 25%.
2550
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Armor, additional Mana, and Ability Haste, providing strong protection against physical damage. Nearby enemy champions have their Attack Speed reduced, making it especially effective against marksmen and other opponents who rely heavily on frequent basic attacks. An excellent choice for tanks and fighters against attack-focused team compositions.
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 enemy Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+400 Max Mana
+20 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Reduce the Attack Speed of enemy champions within 650 units of you by 25%.
2550
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Armor, additional Mana, and Ability Haste, providing strong protection against physical damage. Nearby enemy champions have their Attack Speed reduced, making it especially effective against marksmen and other opponents who rely heavily on frequent basic attacks. An excellent choice for tanks and fighters against attack-focused team compositions.
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
+50 Attack Damage
+35% Armor Penetration
+15 Ability Haste
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies below 60% current Health by 30% Movement Speed for 1 second.
3100
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item significantly increases physical damage through percentage Armor Penetration while allowing you to use abilities more frequently. Damaging wounded enemies with active abilities or empowered attacks also slows them, making it easier to chase or keep targets at a distance. An excellent choice for AD champions who rely on abilities and need effective Armor Penetration combined with additional control.
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
+300 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.
3000
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
+25% 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
+20% Tenacity
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 5 seconds (70s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size and grants 30% Tenacity for 8 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item combines a large amount of Health, crowd control resistance, and additional Attack Damage based on the champion's base Attack Damage. When your Health drops to a critical level, it grants a powerful shield that scales with bonus Health and temporarily provides even more Tenacity. An excellent choice for fighters and other AD champions who need additional survivability in extended and intense fights.
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.
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 40/50/60% (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 26 magic damage (20 + 10%
) (stores up to four empowered attacks).

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
Rapidly fires 20 shots (max 46 shots) in a direction for 3 seconds. Each shot deals 35 physical damage (20/25/30 + 25%
+ 15%
) to the first enemy hit.
Number of shots scales with Lucian's Critical Rate and Critical Damage at 100% effectiveness.
Lucian may use Relentless Pursuit during The Culling.
Recast The Culling to stop firing 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.