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Lucian
CHAMPION · ADC

Lucian

Verified across 3 sourcesLast updated · 2026-05-26
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01

Overview

last updated 2026-05-26
Editor's pick · most-quoted
“You have to be a little more careful with him if you do go for the crit build as you're a little more squishy, but overall Smolder will continue to do Smolder things, and I still think he belongs in God tier. Then of course we have Ezreal joining him as the other primary ADC option, and there's still some good S-tier ADCs that you can play, especially depending on what support you pick up, all right? Like Lucian and Mil- with Milio can still be a massive threat, Miss Fortune and all this can still be a massive threat. Then you got your have some hyper carries in A tier. And the weaker ADCs in my opinion, which are going to be Kaisa, Twitch, and Tristana.”
— royal · patch 7.1e · (07:06)
Open questions (4)
  1. 01~~Build path~~ — answered for 7.1e in [[#Build (WR Meta, 7.1e)]] (2026-05-26)
  2. 02~~Rune setup~~ — answered alongside builds above (2026-05-26)
  3. 03Power-spike timings
  4. 04Specific matchups
02

Tier history

5 entries · 3 sources · 3 patches
PatchSourceRoleTierΔDateNotes
7.1ehellsdeviladcS=2026-05-19—
7.1eroyaladcS=2026-05-17—
7.1ditzstu4rtadcS·2026-05-08—
7.1droyaladcS·2026-05-08—
7.1hellsdeviladcS·2026-05-08—
03

Builds

1 source
WR Metaaggregator statspatch 7.1e
WR48.26%PR6.28%BR0.16%
Items (in order)
Essence Reaver
Essence ReaverAttacks grant Mana Regen, and damage amplification
  • +35 Attack Damage
  • +25% Critical Rate
  • +20 Ability Haste

Spellblade: Casting an ability generates a Spellblade charge (max 3 charges) that lasts up to 10 second(s). Hitting an enemy with an attack consumes a charge, dealing 90 bonusas 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% missingMana on-hit.

3000 gold
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Berserker's Greaves
Berserker's GreavesAttack Speed
  • +25% Attack Speed
  • +45 Move Speed.

Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 10 Health on hit.

900 gold
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Magnetic Blaster
Magnetic BlasterIncreases 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 gold
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Dominik's Regards
Dominik’s RegardsAlready 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 gold
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Infinity Edge
Infinity EdgeIncreases Critical Strike Damage
  • +60 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 gold
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Bloodthirster
BloodthirsterIncreases 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 gold
Runes
Empowerment
KeystoneEmpowerment
EmpowermentKeystone

Hitting an enemy champion with 3 consecutive attacks deals 60 - 200 bonus adaptive damage (based on level) and increases your damage dealt by 9%, lasting until you exit combat with champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Brutal
BrutalMinor · Precision

Attacks deal 6 (+ 8% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Coup de Grace
Coup de GraceMinor · Precision

When an enemy has less than 40% health, deals 8% bonus adaptive damage.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Legend: Bloodline
Legend: BloodlineMinor · Precision

Gain 1% omnivamp, up to bonus 7% of omnivamp when engaging in taking down monsters, enemy champions and minions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Sudden Impact
Sudden ImpactMinor · Domination

Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 10–80 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s. (10s cooldown) The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels: Level 5: Deal an additional 10 true damage. Level 9: Deal an additional 20 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Skill priority
Q›E›W
Spells
FlashFlashExhaustExhaust

Source: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-wrmeta-lucian-build-7.1e|WR Meta]] · sampling: Diamond / Master / Challenger (Legendary tier).

Situational item swaps (explicit):

  • Berserker's Greaves → Gluttonous Greaves — when sustain needed
  • Quicksilver Enchant or Galeforce — boot enchant, playstyle/situation dependent
  • Mortal Reminder — vs healing/tank enemies
  • Guardian Angel — vs burst damage

Counters / threats: Senna, Draven, Caitlyn, Seraphine, Lulu, Heimerdinger

04

Commentary

verbatim creator quotes
hellsdevilauto· Auto-extracted commentary (HellsDevil, 7.1)
patch 7.1

Generated by /wr-extract from HellsDevil's patch 7.1 video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1 analysis (HellsDevil) sections above. Adc "They don't know how to play against her. She does really well into tanky teams as well, you know, if you have like an enemy Nautilus that is engaging your team, as a Zeri, you can just attack the Nautilus with your ultimate and it's going to shoot the lightning to his team and you're going to be able to do massive total damage to Lucian is good, nothing special, just good. Vayne is good, also nothing special." (22:53)

hellsdevilauto· Adc
patch 7.1·adc

“They don't know how to play against her. She does really well into tanky teams as well, you know, if you have like an enemy Nautilus that is engaging your team, as a Zeri, you can just attack the Nautilus with your ultimate and it's going to shoot the lightning to his team and you're going to be able to do massive total damage to Lucian is good, nothing special, just good. Vayne is good, also nothing special.”(22:53)

itzstu4rtauto· Auto-extracted commentary (iTzSTU4RT, 7.1b)
patch 7.1b

Generated by /wr-extract from iTzSTU4RT's patch 7.1b video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1b analysis (iTzSTU4RT) sections above. Adc "Her damage is not as high as of course likes like like Draven and Kaiser, but she can still perform pretty well. Lucian with empowerment. I think empowerment overall actually got a bit weaker in my opinion." (01:02:00) "But the problem is is that these team fights are not lasting long enough. You know, before with Lucian empowerment, you can dash in with magnetic blaster. Do a crazy amount of true damage with empowerment, which it doesn't have anymore, and then one-shot someone." (01:02:32) "Um, yeah, overall, it's kind of like whatever. Like, Lucian's good. He's still good, but he's pretty mid." (01:02:51)

itzstu4rtauto· Adc
patch 7.1b·adc

“Her damage is not as high as of course likes like like Draven and Kaiser, but she can still perform pretty well. Lucian with empowerment. I think empowerment overall actually got a bit weaker in my opinion.”(01:02:00)

“But the problem is is that these team fights are not lasting long enough. You know, before with Lucian empowerment, you can dash in with magnetic blaster. Do a crazy amount of true damage with empowerment, which it doesn't have anymore, and then one-shot someone.”(01:02:32)

“Um, yeah, overall, it's kind of like whatever. Like, Lucian's good. He's still good, but he's pretty mid.”(01:02:51)

royalauto· Auto-extracted commentary (Royal, 7.1e)
patch 7.1e

Generated by /wr-extract from Royal's patch 7.1e video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1e analysis (Royal) sections above. Adc "You have to be a little more careful with him if you do go for the crit build as you're a little more squishy, but overall Smolder will continue to do Smolder things, and I still think he belongs in God tier. Then of course we have Ezreal joining him as the other primary ADC option, and there's still some good S-tier ADCs that you can play, especially depending on what support you pick up, all right? Like Lucian and Mil- with Milio can still be a massive threat, Miss Fortune and all this can still be a massive threat. Then you got your have some hyper carries in A tier. And the weaker ADCs in my opinion, which are going to be Kaisa, Twitch, and Tristana." (07:06)

royalauto· Adc
patch 7.1e·adc

“You have to be a little more careful with him if you do go for the crit build as you're a little more squishy, but overall Smolder will continue to do Smolder things, and I still think he belongs in God tier. Then of course we have Ezreal joining him as the other primary ADC option, and there's still some good S-tier ADCs that you can play, especially depending on what support you pick up, all right? Like Lucian and Mil- with Milio can still be a massive threat, Miss Fortune and all this can still be a massive threat. Then you got your have some hyper carries in A tier. And the weaker ADCs in my opinion, which are going to be Kaisa, Twitch, and Tristana.”(07:06)

hellsdevilauto· Auto-extracted commentary (hellsdevil, 7.1e)
patch 7.1e

Generated by /wr-extract from hellsdevil's patch 7.1e video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1e analysis (hellsdevil) sections above. Adc "Bane is still a good pick into tanks. Lucian, okay. And the A tier champions, they're all just fine, you know, they're all just okay." (19:24)

hellsdevilauto· Adc
patch 7.1e·adc

“Bane is still a good pick into tanks. Lucian, okay. And the A tier champions, they're all just fine, you know, they're all just okay.”(19:24)

05

Recommended runes

creator-cited rune picks
Empowerment★EmpowermentCross-path keystone · 2 mentions
  • "Like Ari loves electrocute, right? Um there's champions that just absolutely love certain runes and will always go those runes and like Lucian loves empowerment, right? Like he procs it so easily." (08:07)
  • "Can I can my champion proc this quickly? The most obvious example of a champion that loves empowerment is Lucian because of his passive, right? Uh, he can just dash in Odak, throw an ability, odak, and he's already procked it. and then he can continue with even the rest of his combo and deal that 9% extra damage. Pantheon. Pantheon is another great example of empowerment. Pantheon can go other runes too, but obviously with his second ability, he does a three quick all attacks. He can proc empowerment. Now, the thing about empowerment is you you think you have to think of it very similar to electrocute in a way. So, it does more base damage with electrocute, but it doesn't have the bonus scaling on AD or AP. Obviously completely different chambers of go electric and empowerment. Electri is more for ability users most of the time while empowerment is more for like all attackers other than pantheon I guess who kind of cheeses it right. So what's cool about empowerment is that it will you will do 9% bonus after you proc it. So you don't want to just build it on champions that can do three quick all attacks and then be done with it. You want to do it on champions that will do the three quick attacks proc empowerment and then do a lot of damage. The main issue that with empowerment is that there just aren't that many champions that do that, right? there's just not that many champions that utilize empowerment that well. It's a it's a very niche rune in that sense." (24:15)
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Patch notes

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