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.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Lux against Sett matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sett. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Lux typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Sett. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lux usually loses when trying to fight Sett, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Lux makes a poor counter for Sett.
While Lux does have a lower win rate than Sett, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Sett.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sett. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Lux is a somewhat poor counter to Sett. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Sett.
To truly master Lux to counter Sett during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux on average accumulates less CS compared to Sett. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lux versus Sett build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Sett than with many other common builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Sett with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sett as Lux, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lux vs Sett battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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