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Lux

Mage / Support

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Lux was last adjusted in Patch 26.4 (). Across 81 patches, Lux has received 23 buffs, 5 nerfs, 52 adjustments since release in Patch 1.0.0.103.

Abilities
IlluminationPC
Passive - Illumination

Innate: Lux's abilities apply a mark to enemies hit for 6 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits. Lux's basic attacks on-hit and Final Spark consume the mark to deal 30 - 220 (based on level) (+ 35% AP) bonus magic damage.

Light BindingPC
Q - Light Binding
Cost: 50 Mana
CD: 10
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 1300 / 1240

Active: Lux shoots a sphere of light in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first two enemies hit and root them for 2 seconds.

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 75% AP)
Prismatic BarrierPC
W - Prismatic Barrier
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 Mana
CD: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 1175
Effect Radius: 110

Active: Lux throws her wand in the target direction that homes back to her after reaching maximum range. Allied champions hit by the wand gain a shield for 2.5 seconds, which can stack up to 2 times, stacking with the previous shield and refreshing its duration.

Shield Strength: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 (+ 40% AP)
Maximum Shield: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+ 80% AP)

Lux gains the shield upon throwing and upon retrieving the wand.

Lucent SingularityPC
E - Lucent Singularity
Cost: 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 Mana
CD: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 1100
Effect Radius: 310 / 650

Active: Lux sends a lucent singularity to the target location, remaining there for 5 seconds to grant sight of the area and slow nearby enemies.

Slow: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45%
Magic Damage: 65 / 115 / 165 / 215 / 265 (+ 80% AP)

Lucent Singularity can be recast at any time while it is in flight or within the duration, and does so automatically after the duration.

Recast: Lux detonates the singularity, dealing magic damage to enemies within. If Lucent Singularity was recast while in flight, it will detonate upon arrival.

The slow lingers for 1 second after leaving the area. Enemies hit by Lucent Singularity's detonation are also slowed by the same amount for 1 second.

Final SparkPC
R - Final Spark
Cost: 100 Mana
CD: 60 / 50 / 40
Cast Time: 1
Range: 3400

Active: Lux fires a massive light beam in a line in the target direction that deals magic damage to enemies hit and standard sight them for 1.5 seconds, as well as grants sight of the surrounding area.

Magic Damage: 300 / 400 / 500 (+ 120% AP)

Base Stats

Health: 580
Health Per Level: 99
Mana: 440
Mana Per Level: 23.5
Attack Damage: 54
AD Per Level: 3.3
Attack Speed: 0.669
AS Per Level: 3
Armor: 21
Armor Per Level: 5.2
Magic Resist: 30
MR Per Level: 1.3
Movement Speed: 330
Range: 550
Health Regen: 5.5
HP Regen Per Level: 0.55
Mana Regen: 9
Mana Regen Per Level: 0.8
Patch 26.4change

Lux is straightforward to play, which means she should look quite strong in the hands of most players. Unfortunately, she isn't doing particularly well, especially as a support. Our changes this patch are a mix of skewing her base stats to be more synergistic with the World Atlas and a direct injection of power aimed at making both her primary roles better.

Stats

  • Base mana reduced to 440 from 480.
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 9 from 7.

Light Binding

  • Cooldown changed to 10 seconds at all ranks from 11/10.5/10/9.5/9.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Cooldown reduced to 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds from 14/13/12/11/10.
Patch 25.14nerf

Lux is a dominant champion and a bit too unassailable with her long-range onslaught of spells and CC. We've previously made some changes in Arena to help her out, and we're looking to pull some of that back.

General

  • Q Arena Cooldown changes reverted : 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 → 11/10.5/10/9.5/9
  • E Partial Arena slow changes revert : 40/45/50/55/60% → 35/40/45/50/55%
  • R Partial Arena Cooldown changes reverted : 45/40/35 → 55/45/35
Patch 14.10change

General

  • Bug Fix: Restored Recall winddown animation for all skins.
  • Bug Fix: Restored Respawn animation for all skins.
Patch 14.9change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: Vision bubble is no longer inconsistent inside terrain, causing some targets to remain undetected in its radius.
Patch 14.7buff

Passive magic damage increased. Q magic damage increased.

Illumination

  • AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 25% AP.

Light Binding

  • AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 60% AP.
Patch 14.2change

Light Binding

  • Bug Fix: No longer has a very rare chance to break a spell shield that was added right after it applied its full effects already.
  • Width of the extra dummy VFX missile is now identical to the functionally relevant one.
Patch 13.17change

Base mana regeneration decreased. Passive damage increased. Q cooldown now decreased with rank. E base damage decreased.

Stats

  • Base mana regeneration reduced to 7 from 8.

Illumination

  • Base damage increased to 30 to 200 (based on level) from 20 to 190 (based on level).
  • AP ratio increased to 25% AP from 20% AP.

Light Binding

  • Cooldown reduced to 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds from 11 at all ranks.

Lucent Singularity

  • Base damage reduced to 65/115/165/215/265 from 70/120/170/220/270.
Patch 13.14change

Dark Cosmic and Cosmic

  • Bug Fix: Staff no longer resets position while using the Taunt emote in a loop transition.

Elementalist

  • Light Binding
  • Bug Fix: Orb no longer renders behind a turret.
  • Prismatic Barrier
  • Bug Fix: VFX trail no longer renders behind environment objects.
Patch 12.23buff

Lucent Singularity

  • AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 70% AP.

Final Spark

  • AP ratio increased to 120% AP from 100% AP.
Patch 12.14change

Light Binding

  • Root buff renamed to Light Binding from Prismatic Seal.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Shield buff renamed to Prismatic Barrier from Stardust Barrier.
Patch 12.10buff

Stats

  • Base health increased to 560 from 490.
  • Health growth increased to 99 from 85.
  • Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Base shield per hit reduced to 40/55/70/85/100 from 45/65/85/105/125.
Patch 12.6change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: Missile is no longer blocked by spell shield.
Patch 11.21buff

Base attack speed per level increased. Passive mark duration adjusted. E damage increased. R cooldown decreased.

Stats

  • Attack speed growth increased to 2% from 1%.

Illumination

  • New Effect: Starting an attack windup against a target with a mark that is about to expire refreshes its duration to 0.25 seconds.
  • New Effect: Casting Final Spark refreshes the marks of all marked enemies to 1.25 seconds if they are within a certain distance of the ability's casting position and have a mark with a remaining duration of less than 1 second.

Lucent Singularity

  • Base damage increased to 70/120/170/220/270 from 60/110/160/210/260.
  • AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 65% AP.

Final Spark

  • Cooldown reduced to 60/50/40 seconds from 80/60/40.
Patch 11.11change

Final Spark

  • Bug Fix: VO once again plays.
Patch 11.10buff

E damage increased.

Lucent Singularity

  • Base damage increased to 60/110/160/210/260 from 60/105/150/195/240.
  • AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 60% AP.
Patch 11.7change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where she would trigger Moonstone Renewer Starlit Grace by casting Lucent Singularity, regardless of if she hit an enemy.
Patch 11.1buff

Stats

  • Base armor increased to 19 from 18.72.
  • Base attack damage increased to 54 from 53.54.
Patch 10.20change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer slow her enemies for a longer period than intended when she reactivates it mid-air.
Patch 10.18change

Prismatic Barrier

  • Bug Fix: Now properly applies the shield at max two times.
Patch 10.17change

W shield decreased; mana cost no longer static and increased; fixed a bug where W would apply three times.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Base shield reduced to 45/65/85/105/125 from 50/75/100/125/150.
  • AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 30% AP.
  • Mana cost increased to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60 at all ranks.
  • Bug Fix: No longer grants bonus shielding at the edge.
Patch 10.11buff

E2 slow duration increased.

Lucent Singularity

  • Slow linger duration increased to 1 second from 0.25.
  • New Effect: Enemies are slowed for 1 second after being damaged by Lucent Singularity.
Patch 10.9change

Final Spark

  • Bug Fix: No longer goes on full cooldown when she dies during its cast.
Patch 10.8change

Lucent Singularity

  • Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
Patch 10.4buff

Q damage increased; cooldown decreased early. Lux can now Flash while casting R.

Light Binding

  • Base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 70/115/160/205/250.
  • AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.
  • Cooldown reduced to 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.

Final Spark

  • New Effect: Can now cast Flash while casting.
Patch 10.3change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: Is no longer able to reveal areas outside of its area of influence.
Patch 10.2change

Lucent Singularity

  • Bug Fix: No longer reveals areas outside of its range.
Patch 9.24change

General

  • New visual effects.
  • Basic attacks cleaned up the missile and impact.
  • Cleaned up and improved the staff effects when she is idle.
  • All skins cleaned up and made to match the base kit changes.

Illumination

  • Cleaned up.

Light Binding

  • Added a subtle effect to better show the width of the missile, sparkles, and rainbows.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Cleaned up and added a subtle missile width indicator for when it goes out.

Lucent Singularity

  • Completely revamped and cleaned up the charge and explosion effects.

Final Spark

  • Completely overhauled with indicator lines on both sides to show the actual width of the beam and a line at the end to show the actual range.

Steel Legion

  • Light Binding
  • Cleaned up the lightning effects on the missile.
  • Lucent Singularity
  • Cleaned up the lightning effects on the explosion.
  • Final Spark
  • Cleaned up the lightning effects on the beam.
Patch 9.20change

Illumination

  • Bug Fix: Is now properly tagged as a single target ability.
Patch 9.16buff

Prismatic Barrier

  • Shield strength increased to 50/75/100/125/150 from 50/65/80/95/110.
Patch 9.15change

Final Spark

  • Bug Fix: Cooldown timer now properly appears when she dies during cast.
Patch 9.14change

Light Binding

  • Cooldown changed to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 10 at all ranks.
  • Mana cost changed to 50 at all ranks from 40/45/50/55/60.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Removed: No longer doubles shield strength upon return.
  • Shield AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 20% AP.
  • Shield duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3.

Final Spark

  • Removed: No longer refunds 30/40/50% of cooldown if Final Spark hits at least one enemy champion that dies within 1.75 seconds.
  • Cooldown reduced to 80/60/40 seconds from 80/65/50.
  • AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 75% AP.
Patch 9.5change

Lunar Empress

  • Bug Fix: Textures no longer becomes corrupted upon death.
Patch 9.4change

General

  • Base run animation updated.
Patch 9.2nerf

Prismatic Barrier

  • Bug Fix: Basic attack no longer cancels if issued the moment Prismatic Barrier reaches maximum range.

Final Spark

  • Removed: No longer uses minimap targeting.
Patch 9.1buff

Lucent Singularity

  • New Effect: Ability icon now shows the remaining time to recast the ability.

Final Spark

  • New Effect: Can now ping whether the ability is within range or not.
Patch 8.9change

Stats

  • Health growth reduced to 85 from 91.
  • Base mana increased to 480 from 384.
  • Mana growth reduced to 23.5 from 47.
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 6.
  • New: Now has 7% bonus attack speed at level 1.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 1% from 1.36%.

Light Binding

  • Base damage increased to 70/115/160/205/250 from 50/100/150/200/250.
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds at all ranks from 13/12.5/12/11.5/11.
  • Mana cost reduced to 40/45/50/55/60 from 50/55/60/65/70.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Returning wand now always shields for twice as much, instead of needing to hit an ally first.
  • Now shields herself and fires the missile at the start of cast, instead of after the 0.25 second cast time. She is still rooted for the cast time.

Lucent Singularity

  • Missile speed reduced to 1200 from 1300.
  • Radius reduced to 310 from 350.
  • Mana cost reduced to 70/80/90/100/110 from 70/85/100/115/130.
  • Cooldown reduced to 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds from 10 at all ranks.
Patch 8.8change

Elementalist

  • Light Binding
  • Bug Fix: No longer fade out prematurely when compared to other Lux skins.
Patch 8.7buff

General

  • Bug Fix: Once again has her shiny staff VFX.

Final Spark

  • Cooldown refund increased to 30/40/50% from 10/30/50%.
  • New Effect: Cooldown refund now also applies on enemy champions who die within 1.75 seconds of being hit by Final Spark.

Spellthief, Sorceress, Commando, and Imperial

  • Bug Fix: Once again have their shiny staff VFX.

Lunar Empress

  • Bug Fix: Once again has her light VFX on death.
Patch 8.5change

Light Binding

  • Bug Fix: Projectile now visually disappears after it hits a second target, since it doesn't actually do anything after that point.
Patch 8.3buff

Stats

  • Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.4.
Patch 8.2change

Star Guardian

  • Bug Fix: Staff is no longer missing its glow.
Patch 8.1change

Elementalist

  • Final Spark
  • Bug Fix: Water form VFX have been restored.
  • Light Binding
  • Bug Fix: Fire form VFX have been restored.
Patch 7.23nerf

Stats

  • Base attack damage reduced to 53.54 from 53.544.
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 5.4 from 5.424.
Patch 7.15buff

Light Binding

  • Cooldown reduced to 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 seconds from 15/14/13/12/11.

Prismatic Barrier

  • New Effect: Hitting an ally with Prismatic Barrier as it's going out doubles the shield granted when it's coming back.
  • Empowered Shield: 100/130/160/190/230 (+ 40% AP)
Patch 7.13change

Elementalist

  • Bug Fix: Can now click the same element in both transform phases.
Patch 7.7buff

Final Spark

  • New Effect: If Final Spark kills an enemy champion, 10/30/50% of its cooldown is refunded.
Patch 7.6change

General

  • New voice over.
Patch 7.3change

Elementalist

  • Lucent Singularity
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it had no particles for its inner orb.
Patch 7.1change

General

  • Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where the tails of Fire form Elementalist Lux's dress disappeared during some animations.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Adjusted Elemetalist Lux's shield visuals on several forms to maintain similar levels of brightness and noise.
  • Bug Fix: Star Guardian Lux's wand no longer gets briefly stuck at the max range of Prismatic Barrier.

Lucent Singularity

  • Missile has been adjusted to better distinguish it from Elementalist Lux's other effects. It's now primarily swirling ribbons of light.

Final Spark

  • Warning indicator on Elementalist Lux's Final Spark adjusted to be immediately visible on-cast, rather than brightening over the duration.
Patch 6.24change

General

  • Bug Fix: Repositioned Elementalist Lux's animated splash in Champion Select on the updated client.
  • Bug Fix: Elementalist Lux's Origin loading screen is no longer obfuscated by ranked borders.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a few bugs with Elementalist Lux's transformation menu.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a gap in Elementalist Lux's Fire form flame collar VFX.

Prismatic Barrier

  • Implemented colorblind improvements for Elementalist Lux's Fire and Magma form shields.
Patch 6.23change

Final Spark

  • Clarity: Cast indicator line has been widened to be easier to read.
Patch 6.18buff

Lucent Singularity

  • Slow increased to 25/30/35/40/45% from 20/24/28/32/36%.
Patch 6.16change

Final Spark

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it wasn't dealing damage to champions it hit if Lux couldn't see them.
Patch 6.14change

Illumination

  • Base damage increased to 20 to 190 (based on level) from 18 to 154 (based on level).

Light Binding

  • Base damage reduced to 50/100/150/200/250 from 60/110/160/210/260.
Patch 6.12change

Final Spark

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a visual bug where Lux could sometimes appear to cast multiple Final Sparks in rapid succession. Only the final Final Spark was real! Ghost lasers should no longer appear.
Patch 6.7change

Prismatic Barrier

  • Prismatic Barrier is slightly slower as it goes out, but is much faster on return.
Patch 6.6change

Prismatic Barrier

  • Base shield reduced to 50/65/80/95/110 from 80/105/130/155/180.
  • AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 35% AP.
  • New Effect: Shield now stacks on allies hit with each passage. Maximum shield is 100/130/160/190/220 (+ 40% AP).
  • New Effect: Missile now decelerates on the way out and accelerates on the way back.
Patch 6.3buff

General

  • New ability icons.
Patch 5.17buff

Light Binding

  • Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 50/60/70/80/90.
  • Secondary target will now receive full damage and snare duration.
Patch 5.12buff

Prismatic Barrier

  • New Effect: Lux now gains her initial shield instantaneously instead of after the 0.25 second cast time.

Lucent Singularity

  • Slow zone radius increased to 350 from 300.
  • New Effect: Can now be activated while in-flight to immediately detonate upon arrival.
Patch 5.6change

Final Spark

  • Fixed a bug where triggering Illumination with Final Spark didn't add Illumination AP ratio to the detonation.
Patch 4.13change

Illumination

  • Damage changed to 10+(8xlevel) (+ 20% AP) from 10+(10xlevel).
Patch 4.4change

Final Spark

  • Added a max-range indicator to the map when highlighting the ability.
Patch 4.1change

Final Spark

  • Cooldown now starts when the ability finishes casting, instead of at the start (i.e. dying during the cast time will no longer put the ability on cooldown).
Patch 3.8change

Final Spark

  • Has a new targeting particle.

Lucent Singularity

  • Slow refresh rate reduced to 0.25 seconds.
  • NEW EFFECT: Applies a 0.25 seconds slow to targets hit by the detonation.
Patch 3.7change

Final Spark

  • Received a new targeting particle.
Patch 3.5 (Balance update)nerf

On top of her long range and wide array of defensive utility, Lux was also among the fastest ranged champions in the game. These changes force Lux to be more mindful of her timing and positioning as opponents now have more opportunities to capitalize on her mistakes.

Stats

  • Base movement speed reduced to 330 from 340.

Final Spark

  • Cooldown increased to 80/65/50 seconds from 80/60/40.
Patch 1.0.0.151change

Final Spark

  • Visual effects no longer appear at the wrong angle if aimed beyond the edge of the map.
Patch 1.0.0.145change

Final Spark

  • Renamed from Infinite Light.
Patch 1.0.0.144change

Infinite Light

  • Rename from Finales Funkeln.
Patch 1.0.0.142buff

Stats

  • Base mana regen per 5 seconds increased to 6.6 from 5.6.

Light Binding

  • Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/75/90/105/120.

Finales Funkeln

  • Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 100/150/200.
  • Cast range now displays on the minimap.
Patch 1.0.0.138change

Lucent Singularity

  • Fixed a bug where its cooldown was 11 seconds instead of 10.
Patch 1.0.0.135nerf

Lucent Singularity

  • Now additionally grants vision while in flight to its destination.
  • Now starts its cooldown when cast rather than when detonated.
  • Cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 9.
  • Now displays a buff showing how long Lucent Singularity will last until it automatically detonates.

Finales Funkeln

  • Now grants vision of the affected area during the spell and vision of enemy champions hit for a short duration afterwards.
  • Lux can no longer Flash while casting Finales Funkeln.
Patch 1.0.0.131buff

Prismatic Barrier

  • Shield strength increased to 80/105/130/155/180 from 60/85/110/135/160.
  • Missile speed increased to 1400 from 1200.

Lucent Singularity

  • Cooldown reduced to 9 seconds from 11.
Patch 1.0.0.125change

Illumination

  • Now properly displays numbers in its tooltip as it updates.
Patch 1.0.0.123buff

Stats

  • Updated Lux's autoattack to feel more responsive.
  • Increased autoattack missile speed.

Light Binding

  • Cooldown reduced to 15/14/13/12/11 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12.
Patch 1.0.0.113change

Prismatic Barrier

  • Base shield strength increased to 60/85/110/135/160 from 50/75/100/125/150.

Finales Funkeln

  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.75 from 0.85.
Patch 1.0.0.109change

Stats

  • Fixed a bug that caused Lux to have 0 base mana regeneration.
Patch 1.0.0.105buff

Prismatic Barrier

  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.35 from 0.3.
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 from 75.
  • Missile width increased by 22%.
  • Fixed a bug where it was applying a lower ability power ratio than stated.

Lucent Singularity

  • Slow increased to 20/24/28/32/36% from 14/18/22/26/30%.
  • Detonation radius increased to 350 from 300.
  • Fixed a tooltip bug causing it to display the wrong values.

Finales Funkeln

  • Ignites and reapplies the Illumination debuff.
Patch 1.0.0.104buff

General

  • Updated PVP.net tags and character ratings.
  • Updated recommended items.

Finales Funkeln

  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.85 from 0.75.
Patch 1.0.0.103new

Lux added to League of Legends

Illumination (Innate)

  • Lux's damaging spells illuminate the target for 6 seconds. Lux's next attack ignites the debuff, dealing magic damage to the target.

Light Binding (Q)

  • Fires a ball of light towards a target location, binding the units hit. The units take magic damage. Can hit up to two targets with the second target receiving a reduced effect.

Prismatic Barrier (W)

  • Lux throws her wand and bends the light around any friendly target it touches, protecting them from enemy damage.

Lucent Singularity (E)

  • Creates a zone that slows enemy units (zone lasts 5 seconds). Can be detonated to deal magic damage to enemies in the area.

Finales Funkeln (Ultimate)

  • After a short delay, Lux fires a beam of light in front of her dealing damage to all enemy units in the area.