"This lux buff is so stupid"

Marshbouy·Apr 6, 2017·2 votes·698 views

TBH it's not going to change a lot. It doesn't really do anything to her weaknesses and it doesn't really affect her strengths much. She can't burst faster, she can't peel better, she can't resist getting assassinated better, she's still as immobile as ever she just can theoretically burst you more often.

That really doesn't change a lot though because getting hit by her Q/E combo almost always spells death or leaves you at low enough health that you will die anyway/be forced to back.

If it doesn't really change anything, then you are technically still right if it is stupid. If nothing changes then this buff was entirely pointless and a waste of time to implement.

10 Comments

Ark SorcererApr 6, 20172 votes

I was hoping, like most players, this was an April Fool's Day joke by Riot in saying they were going to implement this. And I still had my hopes up when they made us think we were playing against bots when were fighting players.

Damn it all.

Shall we do some Math? Lux naturally has her ult less than a minute cool down without any cool down reduction (at rank three). 80/65/50. At 45% cool down reduction, the max a champion can get, her 50 second (rank three) goes down to 27.5 seconds. She gets a kill, reduces the cool down by 50% an goes down to.... 13.75 seconds.

13.75 cool down on an ult that isn't Diana, Kass or something but an Actual, offensive, powerful ult.

13.75 seconds.

Late game terror anyone?

I think my math holds up. This is simple times by a percentage. I do not know anything of Riots formulas but I think it is straight forward.

MarshbouyApr 6, 20171 votes

I'm not sure you really read my post.

Ark SorcererApr 6, 20171 votes

Okay, fine.

I agree with you and thinking this will not help whatever weaknesses Lux has nor increase her strengths. This is just an added thing that makes her low cool down ult be more of a threat in terms of its usage, but does nothing for her laning phase EXCEPT if she gets a kill and her ult will be at 72 seconds rather than 80 (assuming no other cool down reduction). Her combat outside of her ult is the same and there is no big change to her as a mage.

Satisfied?

MarshbouyApr 6, 20171 votes

Yes actually. Only time will tell if I am right. I could be wrong and this buff could make her super insane, but it's highly unlikely. Thank you and have a nice day/night.

Ark SorcererApr 6, 20171 votes

I would say that late game she will be annoying in the fact she can use her ult again way too quickly. It will be a buff to her in the late game IF she gets a kill with it and has as much Cool down reduction as possible-- 45%. Laning phase and probably even mid game has no significant impact from this.

MarshbouyApr 6, 20171 votes

Yeah. Even then I don't think much will change late game. If she gets a good Q E R combo on some one she will probably be trying to use in on a midder or an ADC, possibly even a jungle depending their pick. That's usually all that's needed to start/stop a fight.

Like I said in my post landing a Q on anyone in a teamfight is probably going to spell out their death so not much is changed, that's just the nature of this fast paced game.

I can't imagine her ult in urf though. The horror...

Ark SorcererApr 6, 20171 votes

I don't play URF so whatever but I think it is safe to say Riot did not think too much into this when buffing her.

I will be waiting for it to be either removed or her damage is decreased. If it is the former, slow clap for Riot and understanding their champions and their states. If the latter, sweet! I won't see her a lot because her burst is will be gone, much like Syndra's burst with her ult so...

Rock MDApr 6, 20171 votes

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I was hoping, like most players, this was an April Fool's Day joke by Riot in saying they were going to implement this. And I still had my hopes up when they made us think we were playing against bots when were fighting players.

Damn it all.

Shall we do some Math? Lux naturally has her ult less than a minute cool down without any cool down reduction (at rank three). 80/65/50. At 45% cool down reduction, the max a champion can get, her 50 second (rank three) goes down to 27.5 seconds. She gets a kill, reduces the cool down by 50% an goes down to.... 13.75 seconds.

13.75 cool down on an ult that isn't Diana, Kass or something but an Actual, offensive, powerful ult.

13.75 seconds.

Late game terror anyone?

I think my math holds up. This is simple times by a percentage. I do not know anything of Riots formulas but I think it is straight forward.

That implies you're going to kill someone

and most of the time late-game you're not getting a kill with her ulti because the frontliners are protecting the backline well enough and have Guardian Angels or they have Redemption and Locket and assloads of shielding or you use the ult since people are lining up properly and can hit 5 men with it.

It's just not a well thought out change that buffs her mostly for low elo, the exact opposite of the level of play Riot was buffing her for.

Ark SorcererApr 6, 20171 votes

You are correct in this. Lux's ult should be used to damage as many as the enemy as possible and not to kill them but in the event that she does, it will be up again soon so everyone has to be bothered with it again.

My question is, does Riot understand her weaknesses/strengths and how she is viewed/played in the different elos? I would gather not because this is indeed a low elo thing but still... here we are.

Like I said, I, like many others, were hoping for it to be an April Fool's Day thing. Here we are. Lets wait the month or so and see how she changes.

Expecting to read that a late game ult coming every 13 seconds is some bs coming real soon.