Lux feels awful to play mid

TekkenPlayer··3 votes·803 views

Compared to the most other mages with high burst / burst patterns Annie : overall is just more consistent, has a delete button, and doesn't care too much about getting shoved in Syndra : scales alot better and is very less reliant on landing key spells because her cooldowns are short Vladimir : is just overall safe and can 100-0 you without much itemization, can beat up Veigar : less pressure early in trade of getting absurd amounts of AP any every mage could dream of. Also has build diversity too Swain : overall has really strong lane pressure and can fight back against ganks, can bully effectively and not instantly die to everything Zyra : BASE DAMAGES Zoe : 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 Taliyah : 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".

  1. extremely easy to get shoved in
  2. ludens echo is barely a powerspike
  3. item 3155 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
  4. Illumination passive auto procs aren't usually worth the risk of getting, I sure dont want to get any of them vs Zed Swain
  5. summoner 1 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
  6. Did I mention terrible matchups where you can not do nothing but stay under tower and let them go bot lane?
  7. Like other mages, people with mobility give her an extremely hard time
  8. ULT is so easily dodged you have to literally use it to cut off people or others that have a limited movement path
  9. 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)
  10. Less ADCs to delete
  11. Low waveclear
  12. Instances where teammates dodge my shield
  13. 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.

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Warlord Rhinark2 votes

And people still say Lux is overpowered and needs nerfs omega lul

TekkenPlayer1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Warlord Rhinark,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fbdzcJ6P,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2018-07-02T15:34:34.065+0000)

And people still say Lux is overpowered and needs nerfs omega lul

Ive actually never heard this since thunderlords and morellonomicon era. Even then, the opinions of her were conflicted on whether she was op or not

Get Ogre Here1 votes

Lux is intended to be a support, not a mid laner.

If you don't like her mid, that's fine, just play support.

Warlord Rhinark1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Get Ogre Here,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fbdzcJ6P,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-07-02T15:26:00.646+0000)

Lux is intended to be a support, not a mid laner.

If you don't like her mid, that's fine, just play support.

Stop saying Lux is a support god damn it.

Get Ogre Here1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Warlord Rhinark,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fbdzcJ6P,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2018-07-02T15:33:43.544+0000)

Stop saying Lux is a support god damn it.

No

UnboundHades1 votes

She was made to be a mid laner not support the same can be said about Zyra and partially karma

Get Ogre Here1 votes

{quoted}

She was made to be a mid laner not support the same can be said about Zyra and partially karma

So I ponder as to why when I search "support" in the League of Legends shop, Lux comes up...

UnboundHades1 votes

because riot classifies champs based on where they are most played and lux is terrible mid and decent support so people mostly play her support it doesnt mean that she wasnt designed to be a midlaner

Get Ogre Here1 votes

{quoted}

because riot classifies champs based on where they are most played and lux is terrible mid and decent support so people mostly play her support it doesnt mean that she wasnt designed to be a midlaner

If she's meant to be a mid laner Riot would make her better mid/worse support.

UnboundHades1 votes

what do you think riot has been doing to lux with constant buffs

Warlord Rhinark1 votes

{quoted}

because riot classifies champs based on where they are most played

Then how come Riot classifies Gangplank and Syndra as supports?

https://imgur.com/X3b5umq

Hexs Fortune1 votes

Lux pays a toll for outranging the majority of the cast while also being able to hit through minions with E, R and Q

CppL1 votes

Its not just lux.Evey immobile mage feels like shit in this mobility + dmg creep meta.

Malix Farwin1 votes

{quoted}

Its not just lux.Evey immobile mage feels like shit in this mobility + dmg creep meta.

Half his lists is immobile mages and the worst mages in the game are mobile.

CppL1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Malix Farwin,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fbdzcJ6P,comment-id=00030000,timestamp=2018-07-02T16:51:22.970+0000)

Half his lists is immobile mages and the worst mages in the game are mobile.

So? syndra is garbage ,annie low range, useless without flash ,veigar? didint saw this champ like a year.zyra ,shes not even a fucking midlaner...

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