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 stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Lux against Viego matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Viego..
Lux often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Viego. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually loses when facing off against Viego, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Lux makes a bad counter for Viego.
While Lux does have a lower win rate than Viego, when facing one another, Lux also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Viego.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lux is a somewhat poor counter for Viego. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Viego.
If you would like to truly master Lux to counter Viego during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually gets more CS compared to Viego. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Lux versus Viego build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Viego than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Viego with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Viego as Lux, Lux players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Lux vs Viego battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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