Talk:Lucian/@comment-3546228-20161225161008

To me the main thing about Lucian is simply that he's really fun. His combos are really satisfying, he has nice visuals and he's one of the few champions I never get bored of. Many people feel that way, hence why he's had a consistently high play rate since forever. A champion doesn't need to be broken to be played a lot. I used to play him before the Black Cleaver build and even before Essence Reaver got implemented, I just went Statikk Shiv into IEdge. When he's bad he can consistently provide acceptible safety and acceptible damage, when he's good he can be a borderline pubstomper. I don't think Lucian was EVER at a hugely unreasonable power level except for when he came out and had 550 range and 50% passive damage at level one. He was stupid back then (so were Graves and Cait though..).