Lux: Support Vs. Mid- Ability Change (Brain Storming)
Hello everyone! Nice to see you all here. So today I'm looking for input about an idea I had for lux. Seeing how lux can be taken both mid and support, I always wondered what would have to change in order for lux to exclusively be mid lane. Seeing how her Q can get off 2 stuns if aimed right, W can shield and E do A.O.E. damage/slow and vision, it is hard not to see her aimed in the direction of a support compared to a mid lanner, but what would we do if we had to change that? Well ladies and gentlemen, this is where my thought processes comes into play.
Seeing how Lux typically uses E to get off damage, lets work around that for the moment. Since Lux's E works a lot like some type of bomb, I can see her using another ability (Either Q, W, and or R) or auto attack in order to trigger the explosion (not at all acting like a shrapnel though); Somewhat like Ganplank's E/barrel. The only difference between hers and his is that the time it takes to trigger her explosion has the same time limit it has right now, as well as being the only one who can hit it since that would be a little too big of a counter if not otherwise. Lastly, I would remove their ability to shield for strictly a choice of AD. While it is always nice to grant or receive some type of shielding, it isn't exactly something a solo lanner would typically have; Plus it just takes out an element for the player to use to as a self advantage. Instead, we can advance her kit by having a light form (like slows for example) of Crowd Control dealing more damage or "improvement" by letting her abuse reflections to their advantage.
In a way, Lux can place down targetable devices like Zyra's W can (meaning that these "mirroring orbs" have health to be destroyed) to refract the very light she emits and "bounce" her thrown ability to further distances limited by the original distance by the multiple of 1.5, but also scattered by 2 with half of its original damage and keeps reducing by half for each bounce of every projectile. Much like how Vel'Koz's Q works, Lux's ability to "bounce light" is heavily dependent on the angle from which she hit her ability with. I'm pretty sure that this will require some tweaks, but in my opinion I believe that this will suffice to be a better choice as a solo lanner (as well as being healthy) where it would be a bit harder to support with.
Again, these are just some thoughts and I would love to hear yours. I'm not recommending this for any reason and I just wanted to share this because I thought it would be interesting to revolve around her being more of a mage caster rather than some over glorified support who just couldn't cut it mid lane because there are better choices due to what is or is not "Meta". I would love to see something a lot like this take hold on some type of champion though.
