Talk:Lucian/@comment-15667791-20140716013136/@comment-8506165-20140716051454

"He was already dominating the big leagues with 100 less range than Cait, the popular one"

That's... not saying a lot. Cait has the longest AA range (without steroids) of any ADC, it's kind of her thing - arguably her only thing, as her base stats aren't particularly incredible otherwise and her only AA steroid is Headshot, which isn't that good compared to most other ADC steroids. Most of the ADC pool is running on 550, with a few odd ones out - Graves and Jinx (and Quinn if you count her) are 525, Varus is 575 and Ashe is 600. Kog'Maw and Sivir were the only ones running on 500 before the Lucian changes. And obviously level 18 Tristana has a longer attack range constantly but she starts at 550 too.

But yeah, almost all the "OP ADC picks" over the past year or so have been people with 550 range. Vayne when she was all the rage, Twitch during his big popularity spike, Ezreal... Then again, Sivir was one of the "holy trinity" of ADCs for a while and she was 500, so... who knows? I don't think her utility in R was the only explanation, because she got nerfed in other areas in subsequent patches and fell out of favour.

"I forgot about that but nearly EVERY single ADC has an ability that goes well over their attacking range, indirectly extending their reach unlike Lucian at this point."

Piercing Light is getting its cast range nerfed in line with his reduced AA range but the range of the ability itself is remaining at 1100. That's no different from the previous situation - Lucian can only cast it at (roughly) his AA-range but can target a nearby minion to poke at long range.