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Lucian Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 2,023 gamesUpdated

45.7%win rate0.1%pick2.0%ban

Who counters Lucian

How to build Lucian

Plated Steelcaps→Essence Reaver→Navori Flickerblade→Infinity Edge

Plated Steelcaps → Essence Reaver → Navori Flickerblade → Infinity Edge

48.9% win rate 18% of games 235 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de GraceInspirationBiscuit DeliveryMagical Footwear37% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite35%
Skills
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Piercing Light
14578
Ardent Blaze
39101113
Relentless Pursuit
214151617
The Culling
612
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Lucian build →
45.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 45.3% over 5,060 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.7% over 2,023 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
44.4%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
2.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.0%under 22 min
49.1%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Lucian champion portraitT LucianvsAnivia champion portraitT Anivia
1 / 6 / 0

Build

Boots|Essence Reaver

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQERE
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Lucian champion portraitT LucianvsQuinn champion portraitT Quinn
2 / 5 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Essence Reaver

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQE
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Lucian champion portraitT LucianvsSett champion portraitT Sett
2 / 4 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Essence Reaver

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQERE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 45.9% win rate · 37% of games · 588 games
PrecisionPress the AttackPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de Grace
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 43.7% win rate · 12% of games · 190 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
SorceryManaflow BandScorch
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite35%47.8%730 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash32%42.8%654 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps29%Ionian Boots of Lucidity22%Berserker's Greaves17%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 47.5% win rate

Lucian build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Essence Reaver1st
  2. Navori Flickerblade2nd
  3. Infinity Edge3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path50.5% win rate97 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Lucian →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 2,040 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
29% · 47.6% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
22% · 44.8% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
17% · 40.8% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
15% · 51.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
7% · 53.5% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 31.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Essence Reaver›Navori Flickerblade+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 23.4% win rate · 47 games
  2. Essence Reaver›Navori Flickerblade+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 29.3% win rate · 41 games
  3. Essence Reaver+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 29.4% win rate · 34 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Lucian against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Lucian's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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