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Is Lux still viable as a support (S5)?

DarkSentinel275··1 votes·10,752 views

I haven't come across many Lux supports lately, but in the couple that I had seen in the past, they were good enough to make their ADC almost untouchable. I mostly see Nami, Sona, Braum, and Morgana now and no Lux in sight just yet. Is she still good this season as a support?

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Player of Games4 votes

She was never really viable in my opinion. Extremely squishy with low base armor and mana problems. Gets all inned by anyone with decent engage and almost no reason to play her over any other pokey AP support (Sona/Karma/Morg).

RoyaiChaos2 votes

She always felt very gimmicky as a support. You either got fed and become the 2nd apc, or didn't and felt weak.

City of Toronto4 votes

Viable =/= optimal. Lux was most definitely viable, but she wasn't the best.

City of Toronto2 votes

She mainly fell out of favor when Morgana showed up (black shield) and never really rose to popularity after that.

MattAkhavan2 votes

if you are good at lux, she is a good support.

LatticeGrimoire1 votes

But she only has one CC ( and it is not the best by far) and an Ult that need AP ( and there for gold with she will not have) to be effective. over all Morg is just better in ever way.

MattAkhavan2 votes
  • that 1 cc can bind 2 people
  • She has a shied
  • she has poke
  • go frost queens claim
  • there is nothing wrong with building ap as long as you get the items your team needs.
  • good passive for trading

morg doesn't have poke, she just has a stun, a shield and aoe cc. If you build some ap you do more damage than a support morg. Lux can be effective really far back while morg has to be in the fight. so a mejais is a really good pick up.

Like it said before, if you are good at lux you'll be at supporting with her.

LatticeGrimoire1 votes

Morg's Q does more damage than Lux's and Morg's has scaling CC, the travel time on Lux's shied makes it harder to counter damage, yes it can absorb all types of damage but it does not kill incoming CC so over all I think that Morg's shied is better. As for who does more damage Lux will do her's much faster but Morg will do a lot more over time.

QueenofTokiwadai1 votes

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Morg's Q does more damage than Lux's and Morg's has scaling CC, the travel time on Lux's shied makes it harder to counter damage, yes it can absorb all types of damage but it does not kill incoming CC so over all I think that Morg's shied is better. As for who does more damage Lux will do her's much faster but Morg will do a lot more over time.

She has two forms of CC. Her E slows people with radius. On that note I don't actually like Lux as a support. But figured I'd correct you all the same.

LatticeGrimoire1 votes

True but if you use her E to slow then you have chance to miss the Dmg, also the slow is really light, also Morg has 3 cc if you count both parts of her R.

LatticeGrimoire1 votes

No

stealthfox941 votes

She's slightly more viable then Nidalee support.

AccountaBilabudy1 votes

Nautilus support. Try it.

ZeroAnarchy1 votes

No, her mana costs are too high, only way she is ever useful as a support is if you manage to get fed and become a second ap mid.

SmokingPuffin1 votes

You can play her.

She suffers against the top solo queue support picks -- Annie, Thresh, Leona, Blitzcrank all hard for her to deal with.

Also, her advantage is her range, which tends to mean you need a specialist at ADC like Caitlyn or Varus. She doesn't pair well with Graves or Sivir, which is approximately "the meta" at ADC today.

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