Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Kai'Sa vs. Lux counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lux..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lux. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Lux, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Lux.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Lux.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter for Lux. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Lux.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often gets more CS relative to Lux. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Lux build include Runaan's Hurricane, Statikk Shiv, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kai'Sa used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Lux than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Lux with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Lux as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kai'Sa vs Lux fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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