Lux vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Lux
based on 6,478 Lux vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Heimerdinger
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.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Lux vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Lux against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Heimerdinger..
Lux usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Lux or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually wins when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a good counter for Heimerdinger.
While Lux does have a higher winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lux into Heimerdinger.
Moreover, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Heimerdinger matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Lux versus Heimerdinger build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Lux bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Heimerdinger as Lux, Lux players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Lux vs Heimerdinger counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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