Top · 97 games

Lucian

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (47%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+372 gold).

Win rate: 46.4%; ±9.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #76 of 95
Pick rate: 0.5%; ban 2.4%
Games: 97; ranked solo/duo

Lucian top wins 46.4% of 97 ranked games, rank 76 of 95 top champions (tier C). Most players finish Essence Reaver first, at about 11:24.

The build at a glance

What most Lucian players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Essence Reaver 11:35 · 72% · 67 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 14:00 · 40% of games

Item 2

Navori Flickerblade 18:17 · 54% · 29 games

Item 3 · late game

Infinity Edge 22:42 · 13 of 56 games

Item 4 · late game

Black Cleaver 28:12 · 4 of 21 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Inspiration 12% of games · 58% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Bow + Health Potion 58% of games · 45% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 46% of games · 42% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Piercing Light first 76% of games · 42% wins Skill orders →

When Lucian wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′41% wins38% of games · 37

Lasts 25′ or more49% wins57% of games · 55

Lanes

Good into Jayce

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Lucian games

First Baron: 76% against 28%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 28% 76% +47

First tower 23% 62% +39

First Voidgrubs 26% 62% +36

First dragon 36% 57% +21

Rift Herald 40% 55% +15

First blood 46% 47% +2

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Lucian plays

More control wards, more multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More control wards a game1.02 against 0.68 · +50%

More multikills a game0.60 against 0.41 · +46%

More time spent dead7.5s against 6.4s a minute · +17%

More deaths a game6.5 against 5.6 · +15%

More vision a minute0.94 against 0.83 · +13%

About average: solo kills, damage to towers, kill participation.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:18

Item 2done ~18:30

Item 3done ~24:18

Item 4done ~29:00

Most common full builds

Essence Reaver › Plated Steelcaps › Navori Flickerblade › Infinity Edge 75.0%8 games

Essence Reaver › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Black Cleaver › Navori Flickerblade 60.0%5 games

Essence Reaver › Navori Flickerblade › Plated Steelcaps › Black Cleaver 40.0%5 games

Plated Steelcaps › The Collector › Navori Flickerblade › Black Cleaver 100.0%4 games

Essence Reaver › Berserker's Greaves › Infinity Edge › Lord Dominik's Regards 66.7%3 games

Kraken Slayer › Plated Steelcaps › Essence Reaver › Navori Flickerblade › Black Cleaver 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Infinity Edge 60%10

Black Cleaver 57%7

Navori Flickerblade 43%14

Lord Dominik's Regards 40%5

Essence Reaver 17%6

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion44.6%56

Doran's Blade + Health Potion48.7%39

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward100.0%1

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~14:0051.3%39

Gluttonous Greaves ~13:1250.0%18

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~13:0646.7%15

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite42.2%45

Flash + Teleport54.2%24

Exhaust + Flash41.7%24

Skills

Max

W41.9%74

Max

E63.6%22

Start

W44.0%50

Start

Q47.6%21

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Jayce

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

Expected: what Lucian's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (7)

Gangplank 38% · 8

Yone 71% · 7

Pantheon 60% · 5

Malphite 50% · 4

Fiora 25% · 4

Yasuo 100% · 3

Camille 0% · 3

Lucian vs Jayce · 13 games · Early read

Lucian does better than expected here

69%winsexpected 48%

−80gold at 15′average +372

+7.7minions at 10′ahead or behind

23%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.69 a game

Gold lead against Jayce Lucian's average lead

Against Jayce, Lucian is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 54% of games, and still wins 43% of those. When ahead, Lucian wins 100%.

Ahead at 15′100% wins6 games

Behind at 15′43% wins7 games

Full Lucian vs Jayce page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Lucian dies 3.0 times a game (average 2.4). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 48% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.0deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.4)

42%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

52%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (49%)

81%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Lucian dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 46% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 53% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 54% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Lucian

Kind of death

Lucian Average

Gank 42% (avg 40%)Collapse 10% (avg 9%)1-v-1 48% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Lucian Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 26% (avg 24%)Support 1% (avg 2%)Mid laner 9% (avg 7%)Top laner 61% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Lucian Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Lucian; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Lucian wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.3 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.3 K/D 127 / 96

Your half of top lane 0.3 K/D 39 / 145

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 24 / 23

Their jungle 1.4 K/D 10 / 7

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Lucian wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 12% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 76% when Lucian is there and 65% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Lucian it is 43% against 48%.

Lucian

What most Lucian players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

Good into Jayce

First Baron: 76% against 28%

More control wards, more multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Jayce

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

Lucian does better than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Lucian's games

Dies more than most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Lucian

Ganks come at 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in the top-side river, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen