Lux feels awful to play mid
Compared to the most other mages with high burst / burst patterns
: overall is just more consistent, has a delete button, and doesn't care too much about getting shoved in
: scales alot better and is very less reliant on landing key spells because her cooldowns are short
: is just overall safe and can 100-0 you without much itemization, can beat up
: less pressure early in trade of getting absurd amounts of AP any every mage could dream of. Also has build diversity too
: overall has really strong lane pressure and can fight back against ganks, can bully effectively and not instantly die to everything
: BASE DAMAGES
: About the same kill pressure as Syndra but extremely overloaded with 1000 meter sniping every 5 seconds as well as the RNG utility of W. Pretty good clear too
: more pressure early than I could possibly dream of
And for Lux? She suffers extremely against certain matchups and she merely just becomes a "safety mage".
- extremely easy to get shoved in
- ludens echo is barely a powerspike
is so cost efficient against her that there's absolutely nothing you can do to counter it + stacked on top of nullifying orb which screws over her laning phase even more- Illumination passive auto procs aren't usually worth the risk of getting, I sure dont want to get any of them vs

is another measure of counterplay against her, and is even more effective to take this just to counter her because her kit is much more binary. The travel speed of E is super slow so Q is alot more needed to hurt people- Did I mention terrible matchups where you can not do nothing but stay under tower and let them go bot lane?
- Like other mages, people with mobility give her an extremely hard time
- ULT is so easily dodged you have to literally use it to cut off people or others that have a limited movement path
- Extremely fluid power shifts in the meta. (She probably drops to 47 then suddenly goes to a 51 then drops back down to a 48 over a week)
- Less ADCs to delete
- Low waveclear
- Instances where teammates dodge my shield
- Extremely weak zone control during bot lane rotations used against you. (Literally the only way to deal with this is just to ult the wave in most cases)
inb4 "but shes a utility mage that has to scale to get her burst done" yes yes, I know. Theres a lot more mages that have it worse but my tilt levels get even higher while playing Lux, but I dont stop playing her because I genuinely like the character and design.