Talk:Lucian/@comment-4094339-20131031093250/@comment-5656417-20131106051620

@Thresholden

I love purchasing Youmuu's Ghost blade on him because it provides more penetration, ability cooldown, and chance to crit. Plus having to buy Averice Blade before hand means you can sit and farm on it for the longest time.

His ultimate benefits from the passive penetration, as does his Q and W skills. However, with his ultimate, I would most definately save the Youmuu's Ghostblade active for a time when you need a defensive escape mechanism as its a huge chase-deterant with the ultimate active.

For an offensive strike, use Youmuu's Ghostblade active first, while intermittenly auto attacking. By the time Youmuu's Ghostblade's active expires, if you're using Lucian's optimal combo, you should be mid way through his ultimate. Here is what I feel his most efficient combo is with Youmuu's Ghostblade active. Youmuu's Active > Q > Auto > E > Auto > W > Auto > R > Auto > Q > E > Auto.

With decent lifesteal runes, you will survive and kill very quickly in mid game skirmishes, often resulting in a double kill.