Talk:Lucian/@comment-24343325-20131227003754/@comment-5266525-20131227012044

I feel like against most bruisers he doesn't have the damage early game to beat through their defenses, since they only need to get a bit of armor early game to massively reduce what threat he has.

I've only solo laned with him once before and that was against a Nasus. I spent the whole first several minutes zoning him hard till I ran out of mana, when we both backed. When we came back, he had a Chain Vest, a few pots and from then on nothing I did even scratched him enough for him to not just lifesteal it off again.

Even if other bruisers don't have Nasus' sustain, they'll sure as hell have better ways of closing the gap with you and beating you into the ground.