Lux vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Lux
based on 7,452 Lux vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Lux vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Lux in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Lux vs. Kindred matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kindred..
Lux often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kindred. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Kindred
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Who is Better, Lux or Kindred?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when playing against Kindred, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Lux makes an ok counter for Kindred.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Kindred, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Lux into Kindred.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Kindred matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Kindred. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux to counter Kindred during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux most often accumulates more CS relative to Kindred. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lux versus Kindred build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Kindred than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Kindred with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kindred as Lux, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lux vs Kindred fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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