Lux vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Lux
based on 9,294 Lux vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Lux vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Lux in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Lux versus Soraka counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Lux normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Soraka
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Who is Better, Lux or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Lux makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Lux does have a higher winrate compared to Soraka, when facing one another, Lux also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Soraka.
Moreover, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Soraka 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 teamfights.
Lux is a decent counter to Soraka. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lux in order to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux on average picks up much more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lux versus Soraka build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Soraka than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Soraka as Lux, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Lux vs Soraka LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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