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Lux Abilities and Combos

Abilities & combosData-drivenMediumPatch 16.19.1
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This guide is assembled by the site from match data and the game's own information — nobody wrote it by hand. Official and community guides appear alongside it when they exist.

Overview

This guide goes through Lux's kit ability by ability. Its ultimate is Final Spark.

Strengths

  • High magic damage: Riot rates it 9/10 in magic.
  • Long attack range (550) for safe trades in lane.
  • Clear job in the team: win the bottom lane with your marksman, control vision and enable your carries.

Weaknesses

  • No dash or blink in the kit: vulnerable to ganks without vision.
  • Mana-hungry early: spamming abilities leaves you empty before the fight.

Build cheat sheet

Pick the build that fits what you want to do this game.

Builds

Standard build

BalancedRecommended
Open build

When to use it

The default path: Moonstone Renewer, Echoes of Helia and Imperial Mandate give the health, ability power and mana regeneration this class relies on. Pick it when you have no reason to adapt. Built from Riot's item tags and the champion's class; Riot publishes no build statistics.

Where it's played

Picked before the game: the main lane first, then the alternatives.

Summoner's RiftRed side · bottom leftBlue side · top right
  1. SupportMain58% of matches
  2. MidPriority 242% of matches

Starting items

World AtlasHealth Potion

Core items

  1. 1Moonstone Renewer
  2. 2Echoes of Helia
  3. 3Imperial Mandate

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Situational

Zhonya's HourglassAgainst heavy physical damage.Banshee's VeilAgainst heavy magic damage.MorellonomiconCuts the enemy's healing.Void StaffAgainst tanky teams.

Runes

Primary· Sorcery

PrecisionDominationSorceryInspirationResolve
Summon AeryArcane CometStormraider's SurgeDeathfire Touch
Axiom ArcanistManaflow BandNimbus Cloak
TranscendenceCelerityAbsolute Focus
ScorchWaterwalkingGathering Storm

Secondary· Resolve

PrecisionDominationInspirationResolve
DemolishFont of LifeShield Bash
ConditioningSecond WindBone Plating
OvergrowthRevitalizeUnflinching

Shards

Adaptive ForceAttack SpeedAbility Haste
Adaptive ForceMove SpeedHealth Scaling
HealthTenacity and Slow ResistHealth Scaling

Summoner spells

  • Flash
  • Exhaust

Abilities

  • IlluminationPassiveLux's damaging spells charge the target with energy for a few seconds. Lux's next attack ignites the energy, dealing bonus magic damage (depending on Lux's level) to the target.Passive. It works on its own: play around it.
  • QLight Binding10s50 mpLux releases a sphere of light that binds and deals damage to up to two enemy units.
    Cooldown
    10
    Cost
    50
    Range
    1175
    Basic ability. Part of your regular rotation.
  • WPrismatic Barrier12/11.5/11/10.5/10s60/65/70/75/80 mpLux throws her wand and bends the light around any friendly target it touches, protecting them from enemy damage.
    Cooldown
    12·11.5·11·10.5·10
    Cost
    60·65·70·75·80
    Range
    1150
    Basic ability. Part of your regular rotation.
  • ELucent Singularity10/9.5/9/8.5/8s70/80/90/100/110 mpFires an anomaly of twisted light to an area, which slows nearby enemies. Lux can detonate it to damage enemies in the area of effect.
    Cooldown
    10·9.5·9·8.5·8
    Cost
    70·80·90·100·110
    Range
    1100
    Basic ability — slows and hits an area. Part of your regular rotation.
  • RFinal SparkUltimate60/50/40s100 mpAfter gathering energy, Lux fires a beam of light that deals damage to all targets in the area. In addition, triggers Lux's passive ability and refreshes the Illumination debuff duration.
    Cooldown
    60·50·40
    Cost
    100
    Range
    3340
    Ultimate. Plan your fights around its cooldown.

Strategy

1The kit

Lux's abilities, one by one:

  • Illumination — Passive. It works on its own: play around it.
  • [Q] Light Binding — Basic ability. Part of your regular rotation.
  • [W] Prismatic Barrier — Basic ability. Part of your regular rotation.
  • [E] Lucent Singularity — Basic ability — slows and hits an area. Part of your regular rotation.
  • [R] Final Spark — Ultimate. Plan your fights around its cooldown.

2Skill order

Put a point in Final Spark at levels 6, 11 and 16. Between the basic abilities, max first the one that does most for your lane — usually your main damage or wave clear — and keep the utility one for last.

3Combos

Without hard crowd control in the kit, your damage depends on positioning: land your abilities when the enemy is committed to something else.

4Using your ultimate

Final Spark is the ability the enemy plays around. Use it where it changes the fight, and remember its cooldown: after using it, you're a smaller threat for a while.

Tips

  • Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
  • If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
  • Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
  • Watch Final Spark's cooldown: fights you take without it are much harder.

Changelog

  1. Guide created for patch 16.19.1.

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