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Lux needs some help.

TheUltimateSpear··9 votes·968 views

While the regen nerfs have hit a lot of mana intensive champions. (Specifically, CDR/Mana regen champs who are mana hungry but who's cooldowns aren't quite low enough to warrant a tear most of the time. Karma OriannaVelkoz Ziggs Zyra Syndra etc) none of them have it as bad as Lux . At least those other champs still have the CDs and extra aoe abilities to keep up with pushing, Lux can't even say that. It's a HUGE disadvantage. Her E costs 70/85/100/115/130 mana, and that's just unacceptable now. She could hardly clear a whole wave with it at a few points in the game before, and now with the Athene's nerf, she can't ever fully clear a wave without auto attacks or a second E ever! And all of her other spells wouldn't help. Her Q only hits two targets, her W is her shield, and by blowing her ult to wave clear she's leaving herself vulnerable or in a position to really regret it if there's a teamfight and/or an objective she could have stolen.

Riot please. Do SOMETHING so Lux doesn't have to suffer a mana starved, awful CSing lane phase. If it's that difficult, just lower the mana cost of her E to maybe 60/70/80/90/100 and make it deal more damage to minions.

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Realm Down3 votes

as someone who loves Lux it really hurts me when people start commenting saying shit like "Lux is fine, you just need to do X and X and X and X" the truth is no she is not fine, she has barely any good matchups in midlane and is useless as a support due to her high mana costs. sure, you CAN beat a Zed in lane and in general, but to sit here and act like she doesn't have issues and it's easy to CS with her or defend yourself against ganks is retarded. i know it feels good to be all like "yeah you're just bad, i will rek zed" but the truth is any competent zed player that can dodge your skill shots is going to just push you under your tower for the entire laning phase and roam. the guy has no mana. you're literally going to be out of mana in 2 minutes trying to CS under the tower. other than that, her auto attack animation is sad, even without the mana regen nerfs her skills costs too much, and she runs slow as hell. i still play her anyway, but if you can't get an early blue buff you're pretty much useless. as someone in this game that's entirely skill shot dependent, she's severely nonviable mana wise, mobility wise and generally sustain wise. her passive is basically useless late game as well.

Realm Down1 votes

also, just the thought of building an RoA on lux makes me want to vomit.. come on, man, that's not an item you want on her it severely hurts her damage and again, makes her totally useless. sure you can take a couple of extra hits but you're still gonna die. you know why? one slow from a frozen mallet or a point and click slow from janna or the many, many other characters that have one and you're finished.

LordDarkshayde1 votes

I don't know about you but I cs perfectly fine with Lux. Early you should be concentrating on last hitting minions anyways and not trying to blow them up with spells. One well placed E will net you one or two minions while her passive procs will allow you to finish off the rest of the wave with ease. the only time you should use your Q on minions is if you need to cs under tower and are gonna miss that important cannon minion gold. Yes her mana costs are high, but being an immobile mage I usually build a RoA on her anyways to give her more survivability and the mana you get from that combined with a Chalice are more than enough to make her competitive.

TheUltimateSpear4 votes

I'm not saying the actual CSing with Lux is hard, per say. But, after the first back to shop, if Lux is against, say, a Ziggs, Lissandra, Morgana, Orianna, Anivia, and especially that vermin known as Zed, even if she wins trades against them they can just auto push her to turret and roam or just stall without much she can do in return; even if her mana pool and regen is sufficent, the cooldowns on her only waveclearing spells (E and R) are too long to contest against those strong pushers, and that she has to auto for the last bit of the minions' health because her E doesn't do quite enough damage is really tough to deal with.

darkdill1 votes

Yes, fighting Zed as Lux is so fucking obnoxious. You CAN'T get Chalice first, or you're just gonna feed him, so you gotta live with early mana burnouts with no solution.

darkdill1 votes

Getting Rod of Ages on her is too costly in terms of time and money. It screws over her mid-game to get such an item instead of rushing her CDR, Deathcap or Zhonya.

LordDarkshayde1 votes

Everyone has different playstyles, I personally don't even bother with Zhonyas on Lux even when fighting a Zed. Also between Athene's and Lucidity Boots I have more than enough CDR for her. She is a true kite mage if you use her snares and slows to their absolute maximum effectivness.

darkdill1 votes

Against a Zed, you NEED Zhonya to block his ultimate. You cannot rely on always being out of his range.

Besides, RoA gives 40 less AP than a Zhonya. That's pretty significant.

LordDarkshayde1 votes

Wrong, against Zed you simply need to cast your shield as he ults you and stay under/near your tower so you can immediately snare him there. Zhonyas is not the only way to beat a Zed if you actually use your brain.

-Edit: Also, if you are gonna throw teamfights into the mix you should not be out of position for Zed to get to you in the first place and even if he does a well timed snare shield combo will save your life while you point blank laser him in the face for daring to try and assassinate you in the first place. I have faced many Zeds in my time as a Lux player and while originally they beat me almost every time, I now know exactly how to fight them and they no longer scare me like they do half of this sheepish community.

darkdill1 votes

I'd love for Riot to pay attention to topics like this, but they are always silently going "fuck you, Lux players".

You have my upvote, as much as it'll matter with Riot giving no fucks at all about Lux.

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