Talk:Lux/@comment-25254389-20150204003500/@comment-12314620-20150220135545

Well to be exact Lux can't move while using her abilities. Orianna, Syndra and Karthus are only mages who can use most of their kits while moving (and even their kits have exceptions). Every single ability on Lux has a cast time which cancels movement animation, on ult it just happens to be somewhat longer. And this is actually a big deal. Not having to stand still for those .25 seconds (most common cast time on mage spells) and is part of the reason Syndra and Orianna have been considered strong picks in lane.

As stated earlier Lux:s shield is one of her strongest abilities. In terms of raw power I'd rate it her strongest base ability if you are able to hit it consistently on multiple targets. Also you should consider that shield has decent base stats and since it's AoE you most often get at least 2 people shielded bringing the effective ap to 70%. If both are constantly taking damage and shield is popper before being reaplied (not unheard of in skirmishes) you are now having 140% ap ratio on it. Not too shabby anymore is it? And that's with hitting only 1 ally, now think about getting double shield on 4... Just because it doesn't blow your enemies healthbars doesn't make it bad, it is somewhat more difficult to appreciate though.

In my books Lux is long range mage. She's just easier to operate on medium range.

Finally 3 seconds isn't a short duration shield. Having 5+ second duration shields just isn't healthy for the game since they are very forgiving to the user and don't promote reactive play. Having a few second duration means your opponent has more room to outplay you by baiting out the shield, waiting it to expire and going ham when shield is on cooldown. At max level shield has ~7 second cooldown with cdr (depending on your build obviously) and flight time would average somewhere ~2 seconds so it has really good uptime (depending on your movement it might have over 50% uptime).