Talk:Lucian/@comment-5209745-20131028184941/@comment-7460908-20131101000951

All the carries you've mentioned have one thing in common: they all have potent AS steroids of their own. Therefore, any AS they purchase with items becomes much more effective, obviously increasing their overall DPS, but also increasing their likelihood to crit. Lucian... doesn't really have that. He'll be critting just like any other AD carry, but he likely won't be doing it as much. Again, think of Ezreal and Corki; they don't itemize for a lot of crit damage early. To analyze each case:

Draven- Honestly, I would stack AD on this guy just for the fun of it. I haven't played him since his major nerf (and pitiful "new" passive icon), but in the few instances I've picked him up again, I've actually gone for Triforce after BT. Probably stupid, but since its last buffs, TF is pretty stupid on any AD or even hybrid champ with some type of spammable spell. If Tri wasn't so good, I would still go for PD, because it works great with his W, is cheaper, and gives him unit collision ignorance. Though it was also much better with his old passive.

Quinn- People underestimate her W steroid, but it's easy to understand why. It's more or less conditional in human form, and in bird form, you're a squishy melee champ. She's really better off as a toplane assassin than as an ADC, but in either case, attack speed's pretty good on her. Once again though, after the last TF buffs, I've taken that over PD on her. Otherwise it would have been BoRK -> PD for me on Quinn.

Sivir- I haven't played her in a while, but from what I can tell: her ratios are still pretty high (Q especially). So I'd go for BT over BoRK, obviously, but as far as PD vs. Tri, that's debatable. I suppose I'd have to play her more to really find out.

Tristana: BoRK + PD + IE all the way. No AD scalings and no spammable spells means I'm abusing the hell out of that insane AS steroid. Crits for days.

Something I forgot to touch on while discussing this: I rarely buy Berserker's Greaves on my carries anymore. Sure, they're cheap, but I honestly don't feel that the AS is worth it. I don't even finish my boots during laning phase (I'm actually more prone to getting a Zeal or a Phage before even- or instead of- getting Tier 2 boots.) I'll get them on champs like Varus or Trist though; ranged ADs that make decent-great use of attack speed while also having suitable range with which to kite people.