Lux Build Guide : Low Elo Guide to Lux Support: Prepping in Preseason! *IMPORTANT* ONLY BUILD UPDATED!!

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Really enjoyed your guide for Lux. Even if I'm a self declared Lux otp, I still managed to pick up some tips through this guide and applied tons of it towards my gameplay. Question about Everfrost, wouldn't it be better to pick up into match ups such as Leona/Rell/Alistar/any hard engage comp for the passive so you can disengage from fights you don't want or would it be better to nearly never build this item?

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Really enjoyed your guide for Lux. Even if I'm a self declared Lux otp, I still managed to pick up some tips through this guide and applied tons of it towards my gameplay. Question about Everfrost, wouldn't it be better to pick up into match ups such as Leona/Rell/Alistar/any hard engage comp for the passive so you can disengage from fights you don't want or would it be better to nearly never build this item?

sorry this is like a year late - just now got my account back lol (was locked out due to social login shenanigans). anyways, as you've probably figured out for yourself by now, everfrost is almost never good on lux since the new crown mythic item thing was introduced, and any time you'd build something defensive like everfrost its probably better to build that!

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gj on this guide man, i never really played supp lux but when i found this guide it became really fun

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What's your opinion on Athene's Unholy Grail?Some hate it, some love it, and some just ignore it.

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What's your opinion on Athene's Unholy Grail?Some hate it, some love it, and some just ignore it.

*edit'd comment due to misreading of Athene's, plus aftershock lux invalidating my argument anyways*

Item has been mostly outclassed by Luden's for full AP builds, but a good item for a more support-oriented build. The reason Athenes used to be built (before AP item changes) was, among other things, as a defensive-oriented mana item (while morellonomicon was the offensive counterpart if memory serves me correctly). However now we have Luden's Echo, which fulfills the role of a mana item as well as being one of our core items, and Frostfang/Eye of the Watchers, which is another core item on Lux support which also gives us mana. Since there are always 2 mana items in our build, there's no need for Athenes.

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Athene's procs off shield and aere as well, but does NOT make them stronger. What it does is turn 35% of your damage dealt into healing. With frostfang it gives 60 AP, as much as Ludens per gold. Luden's costs as much as Athene's + Sorcerer's Boots.

It's what you buy if you're broke, could use MR, or are trading in lane.

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Athene's procs off shield and aere as well, but does NOT make them stronger. What it does is turn 35% of your damage dealt into healing. With frostfang it gives 60 AP, as much as Ludens per gold. Luden's costs as much as Athene's + Sorcerer's Boots.

It's what you buy if you're broke, could use MR, or are trading in lane.

my bad, edited comment to reflect that, although AP lux (in sup at least) has mostly been invalidated by the aftershock build anyways so its a bit of a moot point either way lol

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Hey,
you managed to create such a great and comprehensive guide. It's really nice and easy to read and there's so many in-depth explanations that help understanding how to play Lux.
Maybe you could add some tips on how to play against her counters or what might be nice combos with other champs on your team?
Anyway keep up your good work! :)

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Glad you liked the guide!
I've been meaning to add a matchups section for a long time. Unfortunately I just never got around to learning how to format it properly (and I don't want to do it with *just* text since that would be a massive textblock no matter how many paragraph breaks I use). I'll try to get something started over the next few weekends though (assuming work doesn't eat up all of my time!)

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Yeah, that makes sense. I wouldn't put it all together just in one large text.
I've seen other guide makers who solved that kind of problem by either creating a drop down menu or you could try to make categories like "assassin", "tank" or whatever fits best in your opinion. Or you try to actually group champions that can be countered in some similar way - like Thresh & Blitz.
But whatever you decide on, I'm sure you'll find a good way. (:

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Hey, thanks, this is a nice guide! I'm trying to learn Lux support and I'm very much in low elo. One thing for the Light Binding bush-checking tip section- if you're taking Summon Aery as your keystone, you can check bushes with Q and if it hits your Aery will proc and fly away from you. That might be easier to see than a Spellthief's proc :P Anyways, thank you, this was really helpful :)

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Hey, thanks, this is a nice guide! I'm trying to learn Lux support and I'm very much in low elo. One thing for the Light Binding bush-checking tip section- if you're taking Summon Aery as your keystone, you can check bushes with Q and if it hits your Aery will proc and fly away from you. That might be easier to see than a Spellthief's proc :P Anyways, thank you, this was really helpful :)

That's true! I haven't updated that part of the guide since new runes, so I'll add that in. Thanks for the catch!

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Thank you for writing a guide specifically aimed at the Lower Elo crowd since i am in that group. Some of these guides are definitely aimed at higher ELO and i am unable to perform a lot of the mechanics and ideas that they are preaching. And all that some of us are looking for is Build list and why we're buildign that. What skills we shoudl take and in what order.
But the biggest thing i like is that you can explain why you put certain things in your fuie.
You dont just put these items in but explain them. Thanks again for a n awesome guide.

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Thanks, I'm glad that you find it helpful! Playing at low elo can definitely get frustrating and I believe that player in low elo deserve tailored advice rather than diamond players telling them to "cs better" or whatever else over and over again (:

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Nicee ;d

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32 ast with this build! I used Sorcery + Precision instead though.

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glad to hear it's been working well for you! I like Sorcery + Precision runes a lot too, although I generally reserve em for when I'm playing mid :)

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Thank you for this ^~^
I'm just starting to play Lux, so this is great.
*Currently in b4, though :')*

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I hope it helped! Just updated runes today, but I'm still pretty hyped to try out all the other combinations.

I was a game away from Silver this season, but I got hit with a couple int feeders in a row after a 10-game winstreak. Sadtimes ;-; preseason is a great time to get ready to win as many placements as you can tho!

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very useful guide,but it's hard to get out of bronze because there are so much noobs,it's hard to carry alone a match

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It is very hard, and you need to hope your teammates cooperate and listen to your shotcalling, but really as long as you consistently perform well you will win more games than you lose. Especially if you find a good duoQ partner!

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i like it

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thanks for the masteries

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Hi!

You probably might not read this, but here's just me 2 cents about this.

I'm a Lux one trick Lux main, and I'm just wondering a tad bit about your build. It's really good, though!

Pure Support with and Lux isn't really the best build for her. That's general knowledge to most mains. I know that this is your personal build, but you might have a bit of trouble in lane, using spells due to the fact you have no source of mana early on. (Especially since you aimed straightly for , and , which is not that bad, I'd say.

But I'm just placing my cents into the table and say, you have a Level 3 which costs around 100 Mana, and you have around 600-ish base mana early on (or maybe even less), you would just be able to afford 6 pokes that aren't even guaranteed to hit, additionally if that ADC is a competent Vayne and her support is a Janna. You want to be punishing them for every mistake they make.

Also, I don't get why you'd take over , you have a lot of range and AoE spells. Expose Weakness would do you better, especially since that Fresh Blood requires you to do an auto attack and you might end up mispositioning yourself. Additionally, your ally ADC might be able to do a follow up after you catch the enemy ADC in a Light Binding! :D

Most people prefer having one point in and four in , having 5/5 Vampirism is much more useful on supports like Morgana since they have that as their passive, and Vampirism isn't really the go-to mastery on Lux since you should be keeping your distance.

is a situational item, though. :0 So having it on core isn't really that good...

as a fifth item is not really that good when you're behind and dying a lot (which you shouldn't) but everything is pretty much possible at that time of the game. You would only have around 220 AP; a would be better for the burst and Deathcap isn't really that useful unless you've got a lot of AP.

That's all about it though! Good read.

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Like I said in description, I just ripped the masteries off of my favorite league site, i can switch them around if they aren't optimal. I'll probably take an actual look at the new mastery tree later so I can describe why certain points are in what, when I was updating the guide the mastery trees for mobafire were wonky and were still showing the old trees lol

mejais is an item I put in core because I build it (and keep it fully stacked) pretty much every game. Especially at bronze/silver elo (which this guide is aimed at) there's really no good reason to be dying too much with the range Lux as assuming you have decent positioning, and if you're getting focused zhonyas helps.

I mean yeah there will be games when your entire team is getting trashed and they can't help you out when you have to zhonyas but I find those games while super frustrating are pretty rare.

Deathcap can be built either fifth or sixth, I usually just pick it up in pieces (usually grabbing rod when I have the chance) and generally end up finishing it either 5th/6th item. I edited the guide and put it in the last item options along with Ludens/Void staff to reflect that so it doesn't seem like it *needs* to be built fifth though, thanks for pointing that out!

Low Elo Guide to Lux Support: Prepping in Preseason! IMPORTANT ONLY BUILD UPDATED!!

Low Elo Guide to Lux Support: Prepping in Preseason! IMPORTANT ONLY BUILD UPDATED!!

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