Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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 important Sivir versus Lux matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lux..
Sivir typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Lux. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sivir usually loses when playing against Lux, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Sivir makes a bad counter for Lux.
While Sivir does have a lower win rate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Sivir also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sivir into Lux.
Additionally, Sivir also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sivir is a somewhat poor counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sivir against Lux.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Lux during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir on average gets more CS compared to Lux. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sivir versus Lux build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Sivir included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Lux than with many other common builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lux as Sivir, Sivir players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Sivir vs Lux counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lux as Sivir are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.