Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 feature several strategic Udyr against Lux matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lux..
Udyr usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Lux. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Udyr usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lux, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Udyr makes an ok counter for Lux.
While Udyr does have a higher win rate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Udyr also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Udyr into Luxas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This 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 in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Udyr is a decent counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Udyr against Lux.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lux. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Udyr versus Lux build include Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Lux than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Lux with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Lux as Udyr, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Udyr vs Lux counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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