I did some thinking about Lux's magic and now I'm terrified...

SaltyToplaneGoat··110 votes·12,763 views

... because that's definetly not LIGHT that she is using. Sure, it appears like a laser, but it definetly is something different.

A laser doesn't suddenly end at one point and it has a clear color. Also, it doesn't have an indicator. Ya know, that red dotted line? Let's take a look a that: Luxanna creates this red line and then performs some kind of triggering action at one end of it, resulting in a MASSIVE exothermic chain reaction going down this red dotted line. What that reaction is you ask now? It's the creation of an instabile and short lived plasma in a process that could be described as "forced nuclear fusion" that happens inside these "tiny red dots".

Now imagine: she doesn't have to arrange the dots in a line. She could spread them over an area in any way she actually wants. A line is only the simplest way, easier in fast paced combat I guess. With some time and a bit more mana usage she could probably spread these "dots" over an area of a small town and eradicate it within seconds.

To conclude: She's a living weapon of mass destruction. An atomic bomb in the shape of a human being. No surprise the demacian military was so keen on having her with them once they realized what she was potentially capable off.

Luxanna Crownguard might be one of the scariest mages of Runeterra, maybe even more dangerous than Syndra who can turn energy into mass at will and move it around as she pleases. I hope Syndra doesn't learn how to conjoure a mass singularity (aka a black hole), or else runeterra is completly screwed...

On top of that: imagine you being aware of the fact that you are a living weapon of mass destruction. The demacian dogma might be the only thing that keeps her still somewhat sane...

184 Comments

BLU Medic50 votes

Hey! Veigar's an insane, monstrous, evil lunatic who has been making black holes for years and no one's noticed, so why are you so scared of Lux?

yoniame1 votes

he can't make black holes. His w is black matter

elon wątroba8 votes

His e is an event horizon, an area near black hole where even light can't leave.

Rikari5 votes

With that logic thresh's lantern would be a dark passage and Draven's R whirling death. Sometimes names are just for style.

Arakadia3 votes

Draven's R is a whirling death... So is thresh's lantern a dark passage. Its a passage you can take through dark magic.

ahferroin731 votes

'Event Horizon'...

An event horizon is the point beyond which the gravitational pull of a singularity is inescapable. It doesn't work in game like a black hole (that would be more like Viktor's upgraded gravitational trap), but it directly refers to a singularity.

Sona Ping35 votes

That's the name. It's also clearly a cage. One that is sometimes made of Christmas Trees.

Veigar just has a love of astronomy.

DeathBurst3 votes

Somehow, I can totally imagine this little ball of pure evil holding a stand with a telescope and hot cocoa and explaining the stars to some little yordling when he's not busy conquering the world. :D

SaltyToplaneGoat4 votes

Veigar is indeed dangerous, but for a different reason. With Veigar it's not the way he uses magic but of how much he uses at once. If he really has figured out some secret of the cosmos and draws energy from the universe itself it doesn't matter what kind of magic he uses - he will just eradicate everything in his way with pure force - pretty much how his ultimate works...

Rew71116 votes

Xerath is a living mass of energy.

Brand summons fire.

Azir has a undead army.

Janna can make tornados.

Nami can cast tsunamis anywhere (places that have no water)

Rammus can summon earthquakes.

Raze carries the most dangerous thing in history on his back.

Soraka can make meteors fall instantly.

Thresh can capture souls, even if they're still in their bodies.

Vladimir can drain you of all your blood.

And Teemo.

Noam Braumsky19 votes

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And Teemo.

OH GOD NO

Shonjl19 votes

I always felt Lux was one of the strongest mages mainly due to her magic itself. Most if not all other mages just simply use normal magic. Even Xerath which is a being of pure magic is basically doing nothing different than throwing magic missiles(+1 if you get the joke) at you.

Lux is doing more than just casting the random fireball or magic missile, she is literally bending light to do what she pleases. She is bending light into a physical prison that burns and encases you, she is literally setting off chain reactions IN YOU with her passive that she basically turns you into a living bomb even if a small one that with the slightest bump makes you explode. Her mass singularity is literally a black hole, its tiny and weak sure but that is because she is maintaining it. That is a truly terrifying thing to think of that she is actually capable of creating an infinite source of pressure at will. It slows you because it is sucking you in and when it explodes, everything is basically being launched out.

What OP described her Ult is the best I ever saw.

While Ryse, Xerath and even LB might be some of the strongest mages, I really think they got nothing on Lux and the only thing stopping her is basically no different than Annie. Her age, she is young and inexperienced. With time she could very likely become a god, she controls light, she controls mass.

Embertine11 votes

Wait a second here. First off if you bend light away from the original direction it was going, then you will not be able to see that light at all as it will not be traveling to your eyes for you to see it.

Let's say that Lux decides to focus all the light within the area into a single point and build it up for a massive attack. You will not be able to see any "light" as it's being drawn into a point and none of it is coming at you or reaching your eyes. If you were in the area where this was happen the only thing you would be able to see is utter blackness, as if your were blind. If however you were outside of this area, you would instead see a black dome, with the area around the dome being blurred or distorted as the light is moving into it.

Once lux releases the light, depending on how she releases it, either something like the flash of a nuclear detonation would occur, in which even if you closed your eyes and covered them with your arm, the flash would be so bright that you could see through your eyelids and arm regardless, and be set on fire by the intense heat created by the light, or she could manipulate the light and simply use it something like how Vladimir manipulates blood, and simply chop you apart in an instant as she basically has a laser of truly immense power that she can control, manipulate, and change to what ever shape she imagines.

Mimaropa5 votes

As I remembered. I have read in her Lore that she could turn herself invisible, Illusions, Copying Arcane magic just by seeing it.

Well...

Most Unbearable4 votes

Truth. If the lore hasn't changed and memory serves correctly, she actually reverse engineered Morgana's binding after seeing it used in a match one time and improved upon it. Can't remember if it was before or after her military stint, though.

SaltyToplaneGoat4 votes

There is a difference in handling arcane energy as Ryze and Xerath do and using it directly it interfere with the basic laws of physics.

I mean, just look at all other mages. Either they use more or less pure arcane power or they are directly tied to some kind of magical element that grants them power, but also restricts them (Fire, True Ice, The Blessing of nagaka-something, etc). Some you completly formulae to make them work more efficient (LB for example), but that's it.

Lux and Snydra are different. They take their power and don't even bother tieing it to an element or using it in the raw form: they directly take influence on atoms and molecules with it. "Splitting an atom at will" can be taken literally here - and we all know what extreme powers can be set free from stuff like this...

I fear the moment her cheerful facade held up by demacian propaganda cracks. There have been hints in old lore that she is actually a very broken and tragic character, but imagine a person with such powers snapping and going on rampage...

BoiseBossBear4 votes

I hope that Riot delves deeper into her past when they get around to updating her lore. Her League Judgement was one of the most interesting(along with Sona's) and it really spoke volumes about her character.

yoniame3 votes

JarvanIV Leblanc Swain trial was awesome, hope they continue that arc

TeCoolMage5 votes

Psh, no, Lux can blow stuff up but Xerath has lightning bolts and dank dance moves, along with a backstory of regret and self loathing,

Beat that.

Vistha Kai7 votes

Lightning bolts and dank dance moves

Everybody must be shocked when Xerath hits the floor.

Weathered19 votes

Because game limits. If you really want to get technical, where the hell is Elise repelling to?

James Stone18 votes

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Because game limits. If you really want to get technical, where the hell is Elise repelling to?

When she was created, Summoner's Rift was still part of the lore as an 100% artificial construct. All the maps were under Summoner Control and isolated from the rest of Runeterra. Not a stretch to think there was some kind of magical barrier preventing entry that Elise used to rappel.

Either that or summoner magic. Take your pick

PeachsProperty1 votes

lets re-phrase it: how does Elise rappel and still not be able to be shot by markmen who uses guns ;D?

iamthegoatofwar35 votes

I'd question fizz's e more 1st.

yoniame9 votes

yeah, like "Hmm lets see, there comes a big ass wave, a stunning lighthing storm, a two legged meteor, and a super mega death rocket. stands on pole, suffers 0 damage, thenhits 900 with 2 water splash

Old Man Teeto3 votes

"Look at the cute fish-boy doing flips! Throw him some money."

Zydron9 votes

Same place spider man does

CubedJustice1 votes

Large buildings?

Lexy Kitten7 votes

Earliest Spiderman games had Spiderman shooting his weblines straight up into the sky into nothing.

FastAsHeck21 votes

Where is Gangplank ship?

Plot twist its a floating ship and Elise rappels to it

[slayer-jinx-wink]

SaltyToplaneGoat4 votes

Actually there is a river near the rift. And considering canons can have quite some range, it just might be offscreen,,,+

Altho an floating ship might be really awesome too - and would be comnpletly possible, GP going to Piltover and stealing some airship wouldn't be so weird ya know? As Piltover and Zaun seem to be in a time that is like ~1900 with magic... a zeppelin modified in Bilgewater style (= cannons. LOT's of cannons.)? Totally possible,

Photos of Ghosts2 votes

Rappelling. To repel is to send something away from oneself, not to go somewhere oneself.

RiotRiotJaredan17 votes

Yeah, anyone who thinks Lux is a fragile little snowflake just because she's young and has a habit of smiling a lot is very much misguided. Don't piss her off. Fun stuff Kyoki. Cheers.

SaltyToplaneGoat7 votes

Ok, I will simply take this as the confirmation of my theory O_O'

RiotRiotJaredan7 votes

Hehehe.

Urgonnalearn2day3 votes

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Yeah, anyone who thinks Lux is a fragile little snowflake just because she's young and has a habit of smiling a lot is very much misguided. Don't piss her off. Fun stuff Kyoki. Cheers.

Bro.... we have immortal demons, cthulu monsters, men that have become pure energy, death itself and a ptsd chipmunk.

Lux relatively is a fragile snowfkake.

morris110 votes

I still think Malzahar 's space aids are deadlier.

Best Darius KR9 votes

. .. ... Oh dear....

Omega T33mo7 votes

its a game

ModWulf Helhammer126 votes

This is also the lore board

CasterGilgamesh4 votes

so what? Veigar creates an event horizon AKA a black hole

RisenDarkKnight3 votes

Well, about it ending abruptly at one point, Lux's ult used to be global (way back in like season 1 or something). So you're making lore assumptions from a balance change, essentially.

Kaeblen3 votes

Lux vs Syndra so, E = m*(C^2) + p*C given that C = 3*10^8, converting mass into energy (Lux nuclear R) is a lot more cost efficient than the reverse (Syndra Q). assuming that Syndra's dark spheres have roughly the density of water, and they aren't exactly small (maybe 2 sq ft each) ... that's a bit more energy than a nuclear bomb.

Lux can get her energy from splitting a few Hydrogen atoms off of her skin, and it's enough to make her basically all powerful. Syndra Where exactly does she get 5.4*10^18 Joules of energy to materialize one of those, EVERY TIME I press Q? (Nuclear bomb is 63*10^12 Joules) If Syndra has that much power to work with, Just think what she could do by just leaving it as energy, and harnessing that. Syndra talks about infinite potential, and with those numbers she's not far off, but if she's using it to call solid matter out of thin air--I guess that's impressive, but--it's really a waste. Is she just stupid?

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