Talk:Lucian/@comment-27355169-20160115141254/@comment-26231232-20160117052049

It's not because of Thunderlord's, though. And Mundo wasn't played more because of any mastery, either. If you're trying to look cool because you played Lucian before everybody else, at least get it right.

The new Essence Reaver single handedly brought LuciAn into the meta. LuciAn gets AD, crit chance, CDR, and mana regen, all out of one single item. It's literally all LuciAn needs to be effective. Throw a Zeal or an Agility Cloak into the mix and suddenly you're sitting at 30% CDR. Thunderlord's is a nice addition to LuciAn's burst, but it had absolutely nothing to do with LuciAn's return to the meta. Now that Fervor of Battle got buffed, LuciAn might even do better with it.

And Mundo received very significant buffs in patch 5.20, more specifically to his E. Go check his wiki page and his Champion.gg page, you'll see the correlation. Again, nothing to do with masteries. Grasp of the Undying is nice, sure, but not the reason why he came back.