Hey you! Yes...YOU! Are you tired of dying all the time? Sick of being sent to the gray shadow realm over and over by 200 collective years of game design? Did you offend the Assassin's guild and now every Zed, Talon, and Katerina just can't seem to get enough of you?

Well look no further than this build guide for Lux, a build that gives you not 1, not 2, not 3, but a MINIMUM of 4 different ways to cheat death. And did I mention that 2 of them you get every 20 seconds for free?

Crown of the Shattered Queen is an item that allows the user to negate 75% of incoming damage for the first 1.5 seconds of champion damage against you, and it has a 40 second cool down timer...

But everyone already knows that.

However, what if I told you that you could reduce that cooldown to 20 seconds?

The Ingenious Hunter rune applies a base 20 item and trinket haste to your build, and applies additional haste for each unique champion takedown you perform.

At max stacks, this will reduce your Crown of the Shattered Queen cooldwon to 20 seconds, but it reaches ~25 seconds at only 2 stacks.

In case you haven't noticed yet, Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil are also protective items with cooldowns.

Zhonya's Hourglass Base Cooldown is 120 seconds.

After Ingenious Hunter? 60 - 70 seconds.

Banshee's Veil Base Cooldown is 40 seconds.

After Ingenious Hunter? 20 - 25 seconds.


With these three items and the Ingenious Hunter Rune, every single fight that you take, you will have:

A spell shield
75% damage reduction
2.5 seconds of untargetability

All while still having 350 or more AP (not counting Gathering Storm or Mejai's Soulstealer which I'll get to), magic penetration, and Flash for good measure.

Besides the basic benefit of being able to play the game (and not being extra baggage for your team), we get some amazing benefits that we can take advantage of that otherwise wouldn't work.

1. The Absolute Focus rune grants AP based on level. At max level, it grants
about as much AP as an AP support item. The catch is that you need to be above
70% HP to recieve this benefit. But, not dying = less health lost = more often
above 70% HP = more AP.

2. Mejai's Soulstealer......do I even need to explain?
Mejai's Soulstealer gives AP for every stack that you have on it, up to a maximum of 25
stacks. You get 4 stacks per kill; 2 per assist. At max stacks, you are looking
at a whooping 145 AP. It's also dirt cheap for a Legendary Item. The catch is
that you lose 10 stacks every time you die..........which will never happen.

"But Kaidan", I hear you say, "I'm still not so sure that I won't die with this build because {insert reason here}".

Well don't worry, because I still haven't covered the last and final escape method that this build offers.

Running away

You heard that right.

Look at the mythic passive on Crown of the Shattered Queen. For every Legendary Item you have, gain 1% move speed.

"But that's not that much" SHUT IT, let me finish.

At max build, you will have 4 Legendary Items. 4% bonus move speed.

Now look at Mejai's Soulstealer, at 10 stacks gain 10% bonus movement speed.

Finally, if you build Cosmic Drive as your final flex item for Mid, you will gain 5% move speed as a passive, and up to an additional 20% in combat.

Let's do the math here shall we:

(330 base MS + 45 Tier 2 Boots) * (4 + 10 + 5 + 20)% = 146.25 bonus MS on top of boots

To put that in perspective, that is:

1. Over twice the bonus MS that a champion with Boots of Swiftness and full
Relentless Hunter stacks gets (and that's out of combat only)

2. More than the bonus MS that a champion with Mobility Boots AND full
Relentless Hunter stacks gets (again, out of combat only).

3. Equivalent bonus MS that a level 13 champion gets from Predator, a KEYSTONE
RUNE

TL:DR You can run away from conflict faster than my dog runs away from the vaccuum cleaner.

So let's recap all of the defense measures that enemies will have to go through to kill you:

A spell shield
75% damage reduction
2.5 seconds of stasis
Flash
146 bonus MS on top of boots
Your Root Ability
Your Shield Ability
Your Area-Slow Ability
Your 500+ AP worth of damage
45 Armor
45 Magic Resist
And maybe, just maybe, your teammates (if they are useful)

Most of which, you will have during every single fight you take.

Look at me. LOOK AT ME. You are the tank now.

If the enemies kill you in a teamfight, they must have used every single ability, ultimate, and item activation on you, which hopefully means your teammates killed them while they focused you.

Enjoy playing League again kid; bask in the fury of every assassin player as they use everything on you and don't even drop you to 50% HP.