Talk:Lux/@comment-85.207.18.54-20120302222500/@comment-112.210.182.251-20120305171846

Lux is actually viable, but god awful reasoning like 2000 HP shields just makes her look bad.

Top tier AP mid heroes needs range and creep clearing. This makes their laning game very safe if the have both. So that's heroes like cass and karthus. Heroes with low range but insane creep clearing is also viable, thats why you see mords and sions pretty often. Having range, creep clearing, and harassment are the ones that are really sought after. This is why Cass and Ryze are very often banned.

Now, Lux has insane range but his creep clearing is medicore. IMO, the most crucial part of laning are levels 1-7. At those levels, her E cannot oneshot ranged minion waves and has relatively high mana cost. She cannot spam with (relative) impunity unlike a cass or karthus without a blue buff. Her attack range is pretty short.

TLDR: Lux is a nice AP mid, but not god tier.