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Lux Confusion

Martr4Fun·9/5/2016, 4:10:40 AM·3 votes·850 views
Lux | League of Legends

I'm writing this because I am a bit dissatisfied with Lux. For clarity, I love her current kit (she is one of my mains), but the abilities just don't seem fitting to her at all. I'm going to go over her abilities and why I'm dissatisfied, and then counter with alternative ideas.

Lux Luxanna (Lux) - The Lady of Luminosity Primary Weapon: Light

Taken directly from her lore: "...she was discovered to possess a unique command over the powers of light." "She could play tricks that made people believe they had seen things that did not actually exist." "She could also hide in plain sight."

Does that sound like Lux? Do her abilities reflect that description? Here are her abilities:

Auto-Attack: A sparkle or something...? ---------(I'm not even sure what shes attacking with, but it looks like a small ball of light. Attacking with balls of light seems odd, and I'm not sure how that would hurt someone.) Passive: Illumination (Sparkle) ---------Abilities add a sparkle. Auto-attacks pop the sparkle for extra damage ---------(Nothing about this makes sense to me. I like the premise, but how is she doing this with light?) Ability 1: Light Binding (Snare) ---------Snares and damages enemies ---------(How does light snare people?) Ability 2: Prismatic Barrier (Shield) ---------Shields Lux and allies ---------(How does light shield people? I looked into force-fields, and it seems like magnetic fields are used primarily, not light.) Ability 3: Lucent Singularity (Bomb) ---------Slows enemies, reveals the area and can be detonated for damage --------- (I like the reveal part, but how does light explode and hurt people?) Ultimate: Final Spark (Laser) ---------Powerful laser beam

Let's look at the lore again: "...she was discovered to possess a unique command over the powers of light." "She could play tricks that made people believe they had seen things that did not actually exist." "She could also hide in plain sight."

This just doesn't seem to add up. 1) Her abilities don't really make sense, considering she is manipulating light to do everything. 2) Her abilities dont reflect her lore.

Here are some ability ideas that are better suited to her based on her lore, and also clearly focused around light manipulation. Laser, Bouncing Laser ---------Hyper-focused light Blind, Map Reveal ---------Bursts of light Darkness ---------removal of light Cloak, Hologram ---------manipulation of light reflections Kinetic energy --------- Focused light ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-VZdJu0bLU )

Below is a list of ideas for a new Lux kit. I kept the ideas vague to encourage creativity.

Auto-Attack Idea 1: Small Laser

Passive Idea 1: Map Reveal ---------Constant map reveal in the area around Lux Passive Idea 2: Blind ---------Auto attacks or particular abilities blind enemies Passive Idea 3: Light Storage ---------Stores and uses light through the use of abilities

Ability Idea 1: Cloak ---------renders herself invisible Ability Idea 2: Map Reveal ---------reveals a section of the map Ability Idea 3: Hologram ---------creates a hologram of herself (or something else) Ability Idea 4: Blind ---------blinds enemy champions Ability Idea 5: Darkness ---------Removes enemy vision Ability Idea 6: Laser ---------Fires a laser beam Ability Idea 7: Bouncing Laser ---------A laser beam that bounces off terrain and can hit enemies multiple times Ability Idea 8: Speed/Slow ---------Moderate kinetic energy to speed champions up or slow them down Ability Idea 9: Dash/Push ---------Burst of kinetic energy to move herself or someone else

I encourage further development of new Lux ideas, so that the overall character is more fitting in the game.

5 Comments

Sad Tyrant9/5/2016, 7:16:56 AM1 votes

you are over thinking this

It's called suspension of disbelief

FlameHalbrdOkido9/5/2016, 8:42:47 PM1 votes

I love this kind of stuff, taking deceptively simple ideas, and thinking about just how complicated and OP they can really get, when you think about how much can really be, done and how many things the one original idea really effects

Photon Manipulation 1.) Can concentrate light in an area before letting it explode 2.) Can make lasers 3.) Can plunge an area into darkness by dispelling light 4.) Can make self invisible 5.) Can make herself appear where she is not by refracting light, and make multiple images of herself 6.) Hard light constructs 7.) Can leave after images of herself or her abilities/allied abilities made excited photons that deal range 8.) Light shuriken 9.) Can make self appear bigger or smaller 10.) She surrounds one area in a semi-sphere of light that explodes on contact 11.) She surrounds another area in a darkness, anything it touches is rendered invisible or blind 12.) She can refract light to make the areas of light or dark appear in other places, or even make the areas appear to switch places 13.) Maybe units or abilities that enter the dark area seem to appear in the light area, by refracting the light 14.) could increase or decrease UV radiation of photons 15.) Has a little control over heat 16.) Could make a MINI SUN 17.) Could make allied abilities invisible 18.) Could over excite the the photons to increase their frequency to make gamma rays

FlameHalbrdOkido9/8/2016, 2:36:42 AM1 votes

Actually, taking the video you posted into account can allow for parts of Lux's kit now to be justified, with the info it offers about light from powerful sources being able to push things, and other info

If her passive makes her AA deal more damage after hitting enemies with her abilities... It can be explained like this: Lux uses light in her abilities, by hitting enemies with the light, it allows her to see her enemies and their weak/vital spots easier, so her next AA hits harder.

Q - Lux surrounds the target in a ring of light that emanates inward. She increases the momentum of the light conversely increasing the lights pressure on the target within, rendering them unable to move.

W - Lux surrounds the target in a sphere of light that emanates outward, she increases the momentum of the light so that it can block and divert attack towards the target

E - Lux surrounds the area in a ring of light that constantly filters to the center. This ring only has about half as much of the momentum as Q so the targets are only slightly pushed to the center by the light, so they are only slowed. The damage part might not make that much sense but Radioactive materials radiate photons as a part of their radiation. Or perhaps she concentrates the light until it has enough heat to burn organisms when its released. Yeah lets say that she concentrates the light to create enough heat to damage her tagets

We both agree that she can have a laser right?

other ideas is that she could dispel the light around and ally and create a 400 black sphere around the target that follows them

Or what about a wide path of light that lasts 4 sec, reveals enemies and allows allies to see enemies better, increasing their crit chance, and increasing crit damage.

or maybe a tether that connects to allies increasing their sight radius and AD

Martr4Fun10/14/2016, 3:19:50 AM1 votes

Im just glad people are talking about it, haha. But even if her current abilities can be arguably deemed plausible through the manipulation of light, I would still argue that her kit doesn't adequately reflect her lore.

"...she was discovered to possess a unique command over the powers of light." "She could play tricks that made people believe they had seen things that did not actually exist." "She could also hide in plain sight."

Breaku10/14/2016, 3:21:00 AM1 votes

At one point in development, her W stealthed allies it hit