2011-09-09, 10:14 AM
KajitiSouls Wrote:Her AoE damage is pretty good if you successfully leverage early game advantages, and I suppose I'm not doing her justice speaking about her in terms of even ground.
However, that said, she's a shytton of skillshotting. It's not too difficult for me to dodge that stuff in lanes (anywhere between 40-90% avoidance, depending on the skillshot), and it's even easier to juke the stuff that can get you killed really fast. I find Lux underperforms if she can't keep her opponents on their toes, or worse, they bumrush her if she blows her snare and misses.
Maybe it's just me. I'm finding skillshots to be unreliable, partly because of the delays, partly because I'm good at avoiding them (especially if I'm Koggles xD), partly because I can't land Anivia's FF for shyt on good opponents.
Her only really unreliable skill shots are her laser as ap carry lux and her shield as suppport lux. Laser can be so easily be walked out of in open space with second rank boots unless you're in a hectic teamfight. At my elo (1650 or so) even if I would hit 5 on the original skillshot line I usually find myself only hitting 1-2 while poking if we're 5vs5 on open field so everyone can see me. I've some trouble hitting her shield as support lux since you've to cast it from brush (best position to set up q's) and that screws up its position if the ad carry isn't that smart. I never really have trouble hitting q because I only use it when the enemy champ is coming closer to harass me thus walking in a straight line. I don't use q for harassing e is for that. Pre-boots I don't even know if it's possible to avoid an e from Lux, but I usually hit around 80% of them at second rank boots and I max it first making Lux harass extremely good.
For example lets take malzahar (a common mid). His silence can be dodged, his pool can be walked out of, whenever he gets tries to gets close to cast his DoT he eats a q and a potential e or illumination proc. If he manages to land it anyway you've a nice shield that soaks up some of it at least. If he tries to do his ulti/pool combo you just flash out or walk out if you have time. I'd usually only die against malzahar with an ulti out of nowhere combined with jungler cc like amumu/warwick with red. He can't harass you as well enough as you can harass him and he doesn't have good sustaining means you'll at least have a cs advantage with a possible level advantage. I usually only have trouble with tanky/major sustain opponents. This would be common solo top material like Swain.