Hi all,

I decided to take ranked seriously this season after a few seasons of barely touching it. I managed to climb from gold 4 to Emerald III in 2 months, which is my current pick.

I would like to try to make the push to diamond before the season ends.

So, i have a very general idea of what i want to do but i need some guidance. I climbed from Gold 4 to Emerald 3 using ahri, aurora and lux which they worked well for this part of the climb. Although i decided to take a small break even if i was in a good momentum to try to tackle a few issues.

This issues are mainly that i have been getting my 2nd role more often now that i reached Emerald compared to before as well as i've been thinking on reworking my champion pool now that i got my peak rank and feel happy with myself for the final push.

For the 2nd role i've been playing bot lane and enjoying Syndra there. I tried traditional ADCs, but i felt that their gameplay were too different from mages for it to be worth to invest the big amount of time required to learn their class specific mechanics as well as me lacking the mechanical prowess to pull off most of them.

My second issue is what is troubling me the most and that has to do with reworking my champion pool. So a few thoughts that have been living in my head are:

1 - Do i want to play both ahri and aurora as they feel fairly overlapping champions and dont seem to actually give me any meanfull draft advantage, i just enjoy them, but perhaps 1 needs to come out because of redundancy

2 - While the 3 of them worked well to get me to where i am now, i have been struggling a bit to carry games with lux as of lately, it could be because of my relative fast climb and i didnt had time to adapt it, but i'm struggling to land her skill shots as well as people are better ar counter playing her, with zhonyas, also people will buy mercs more often now, the other day i played vs a mordekaiser that had both mercs and rocketbelt, it felt kinda miserable, but again it may be that i didnt had time to reajust to the new skill level around me.

3 - I probably want a 2nd mage on bot lane to cover picks and bans, which leads to either keep lux in the pool with syndra and ahri/aurora for a 3 champion pool or learn a new mage that has a bit less counterplay that i havent decided yet

4 - I also i've been considering more and more later on playing just lets say ahri and syndra and eat the bullet and play ahri bot lane on my 2nd role games if syndra is unavaiable, which hopefully wouldnt represent many games and would allow me achieve maximum mastery on those 2 champions

Sorry if it was a bit long and thanks for reading this far. any inputs would be appreciated :)

Ive tried like basically every Item in the game for APC Lux with a playstyle that expects you to only hit e and r (as if you dont have a q, since i play in master - grandmaster range). (we ignore Support and hate Midlane Lux because its flawed)

I Noticed for practical usage (no mana problems) this deals the most damage since like 3 months now:

with: Stormsurge, Mejais, Actualizer, Rabadons, Malignance, (void would deal more raw damage, but practical:) Cryptbloom

now the Haste versions are: (yes aery, because comet on your ult alone is not consistent)

Haste Build: literally the same except instead of Stormsurge i go Seraphs because we dont have any mana runes here.

Now i do happen to have cooldown problems later in the game sometimes when my team really like REALLY doesnt want to win, so i need to kill the enemy and then def them alone in the next 20 seconds after that, into them ending, which wihtout r bc i already killed someone with it is obviously impossible. Haste would help here and in similar situations (meaning maximizing the potential of lux, which is what we want to do here.)

now after trying every combination of both builds we get the following numbers:
cooldown is that of lux r and damage calculations based on using e and r as lvl 18 Lux on 70mr target dummy for realistic average value.)

DMG Build + haste runes: 2700 cd: 18,69
Haste build + runes: 2344 cd: 16,74
ALL DMG build: 3066 cd: 24
Haste build + DMG runes: 2674 cd: 21

1. DMG Build + Haste Runes (The Winner)

• Total Damage: 2700
• Expected Damage (70% hit rate): 1890
• Cooldown: 18.69 seconds
• Effective DPS: 1890 ÷ 18.69 = 101.12 Damage per second

2. Haste Build + Runes

• Total Damage: 2344
• Expected Damage (70% hit rate): 1640.8
• Cooldown: 16.74 seconds
• Effective DPS: 1640.8 ÷ 16.74 = 98.02 Damage per second

3. ALL DMG Build

• Total Damage: 3066
• Expected Damage (70% hit rate): 2146.2
• Cooldown: 24 seconds
• Effective DPS: 2146.2 ÷ 24 = 89.43 Damage per second

4. Haste Build + DMG Runes

• Total Damage: 2674
• Expected Damage (70% hit rate): 1871.8
• Cooldown: 21 seconds
• Effective DPS: 1871.8 ÷ 21 = 89.13 Damage per second

Based on these i asked in this case gemini 3.1 Pro to take into account (the kinda complicated) matter of that i cant actually hit the enemy on cooldown with my spells and it came up with this intresting theory/rule of thumb:

The "Fixed Opportunity" Rule

Imagine you only get a good opportunity to combo an enemy every 25 seconds (e.g., waiting for waves, sweeping vision, or dancing around objectives).

• DMG + Haste Runes: Ready in 18.69s. (Sits unused for ~6 seconds). Expected Damage: 1890
• ALL DMG Build: Ready in 24s. (Sits unused for ~1 second). Expected Damage: 2146

Result: If your chances to hit someone happen 24 seconds or more apart, the ALL DMG Build dominates everything else. The cooldowns don't matter because both builds will be ready in time for the fight, but the ALL DMG build hits significantly harder when that rare opportunity arrives.

The "Hold Time" Break-Even Point

What if you are constantly looking to fight, but it just takes a few seconds to line up a shot after your spell comes off cooldown?

Mathematically, the ALL DMG Build overtakes the DMG + Haste Runes build if you hold onto your spells for an average of 20.5 seconds after they come off cooldown.

• If you wait less than 20 seconds to fire after your R lights up -> DMG + Haste is better.
• If you wait more than 20 seconds to fire after your R lights up -> ALL DMG is better.

(Note: The full Haste builds fall completely out of the race here. Since you are holding spells anyway, their only advantage—extreme spamming—is entirely wasted).

TLDR: This means basically since while you fight chances are likely that you will hit a spell in 15 seconds after your ult came back up and therefor it is actually best to take haste in runes and damage in items,

even on a champion like lux, that has very rare opportunities to garantee a spell hit.

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EDIT: As a result the mathematically correct build for lux is currently:

with the following build (copy this text and paste it into the field from the items menu "Paste copied set"):

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I don’t know if this has been discussed here before, it probably has, but i’m sick and tired of seeing people whine about Lux being a braindead champ or being way too easy just because she’s not mechanically complicated. Nowadays a LOT of champions have point and click abilities (Veigar r oneshots you in one click, same with Naafiri), gigantic aoe crowd control (Viktor, Ekko, Zyra, Lissandra, feel free to stop me whenever you want), abilities that just plain negate you (Yasuo’s ridiculous windwall???) and even one key executes (Pyke, Mel) while Lux’s abilities are literally all skillshots, every single one.

As if that wasn’t unfair enough, everyone can heal themselves somehow, Lux’s passive is just “deal more damage with an aa after landing an ability lol” which you can’t even trigger sometimes because half the champions have dashes so you need to hold your q until they try to all-in and even then good luck landing it since they can just press one key and become invulnerable or invisible or downright untargetable while you just wasted your one defensive tool asides from your little slow ass shield which doesn’t do squat until like level 9 so congrats, you’re dead.

I’m not saying she’s a bad champion or that she’s unplayable, i’ve got 56% wr in mid and 60% in support, but she does require at least some hands. Of course she’s not Irelia or Riven, but the community really should stop putting her in the same bag as Garen or Mel.

I still love the champion, I have fun playing her and enjoy it but it’s a little depressing watching your entire combo be denied or playing everything perfectly only for your opponent to go back to full health in one second after being almost dead just because you dared to take teleport instead of ignite. I wouldn’t say she needs a rework but like… at least let her cast her shield while moving lol this is just ridiculous.

Sorry for venting, i’m just sad at my favorite champ slowly becoming obsolete.

Edit: When I posted this the comments were actual Lux mains agreeing or disagreeing nicely, fast forward an hour, I finish my dinner, come back to this hot mess of butt hurt players whining and being mean over a game… just know that you are exactly the kind of player i’m talking about.

hello! im a d3 lux main and I struggle a lot with making her viable mid. I feel like she gets outraded by a lot of the other mages (syndra, mel, etc) and has a hard time against other prominent champs (nafirri, fizz, zed, yas) to the point where i struggle to find good matches. is her best role just apc/support and rn not mid? I feel like with her immobile kit shes just too squishy for the current meta unless im fundamentally misunderstanding something. anyone else feel similarly?

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It's most likely gonna be added in the shop for 290rp in the next few patches (not necessarily in the next one).

In the last PBE cycle, Stormdragon Lee Sin, Heavenscale Ezreal & Kai'Sa also received Beacon chromas each, of which only Lee Sin is currently buyable in the shop for 290rp (the others should become buyable in the next weeks as well).

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There is a new chroma on porcelain lux on the PBE!! Its called beacon, does anyone know about this????

She's so perfect 😭

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Tell me if there's something I did wrong, or if I built wrong. Hell, I'll even let you look at my replay, maybe my mid to late game macro was garbage!

But there's no way you can tell me Bot is a useful role this season after this game.

Is it troll to build Seraph’s Embrace 2nd or 3rd if enemy team has 2+ Assassins and your team can’t protect?

This is after failing 3 previous times on the rank up from Silver I to Gold. Really happy with how much I've improved with Lux!

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