Talk:Lucian/@comment-24324717-20140316114704/@comment-8468980-20140329190628

"I'm learning ADC. Who should I buy first Lucian or Caitlin? "

Graves. He's basically training wheels for ADC play.

Lucian isn't particularly difficult, but his complete lack of CC may be a little frustrating early / mid game. Lucian's most important lessons include managing mana since he relies on spell damage so much, gauging when to weave passive procs in or ignore them and simply burst down, and when to use ulti. His lack of free damage stats is noticeable late game when an equally farmed Trist is pelting you with double the AAs from far away...

Cait isn't one of the easiest ADCs to play as and I'm really curious why anyone would describe her that way. She's got immense early game advantages from her AA / Q / R range, free burst from her passive, ability to control brush with traps, strong base damage scaling on spells, and even has an escape. That said, its difficult to chain her damage together for better burst since they're all delayed and her ulti can be blocked entirely. You need to zone players into traps voluntarily, Q has channel time, and as the game goes on R becomes more and more difficult to execute with. In addition, her mana usage is very difficult to get used. You may not even want to waste mana dropping traps depending on how aggressive your enemies are or you may find yourself using Q too much with little pay off.