Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 stats provided here highlight several vital Warwick versus Lux matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lux..
Warwick often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lux. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually loses when playing against Lux, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes a bad counter for Lux.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Warwick into Lux.
Additionally, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Warwick 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 team members during team fights.
Warwick is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Lux.
If you would like to truly master Warwick to counter Lux during both the lane 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 suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick typically accumulates less CS relative to Lux. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Warwick versus Lux build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Lux than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Lux with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Lux as Warwick, Warwick players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Warwick vs Lux counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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