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 here highlight several influential Qiyana vs. Lux counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lux. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Qiyana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lux. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when taking on Lux, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Qiyana makes a poor counter for Lux.
While Qiyana does have a lower winrate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Qiyana also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Qiyana into Luxas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Qiyana 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Lux.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average racks up more CS as Lux. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Qiyana versus Lux build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Qiyana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Lux than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lux as Qiyana, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Qiyana vs Lux counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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