Talk:Lucian/@comment-24606304-20140228154139/@comment-8506165-20140305034308

Don't get TriForce first. BT improves all your abilities more, does more for your attack after using an ability than Spellblade, and because Lucian gets to "double-dip" on lifesteal thanks to his passive he benefits more from that as well. And it's cheaper, especially if you consider that you want the early Vamp Scepter anyway so you'll already have sunk 800 gold towards it.

You definitely want it at some point - Lucian's kind of a weird guy in that one of his undisputed core items shouldn't be rushed, though. I guess it's that Trinity is really so nice on him for the extra mobility, but that helps less in laning phase compared to... well, higher sustain and higher overall damage. You could probably get away with it if you were really snowballing, but I wouldn't recommend it, seeing as you snowball harder with BT anyway.