Talk:Lich Bane/@comment-635932-20110301115752/@comment-635932-20110302051918

Lux gets in auto attack range regularly throughout the whole game. She can't stay back at absolute max range in all situations or she can be more vulnerable to ganking from behind the rest of the team. To some extent, squishies should be around their team in a team fight rather than hanging 500-1000 range back, where no one can punish your killers. There is a lot more going on than just team fights, but even then she can still use it when it matters, say an enemy tank dives in or your team is chasing a champion in the aftermath, both where it can regularly deal quite a bit of extra damage, giving a free nuke with a 1:1 AP ratio, adding to her already existing single hit auto attack bonus. Long range caster or not, she'll be in auto attack range sometimes, and you have control over when you are. If you want to use it, you can move into range and duck back out. She's not stuck back there, and she needs to stay constantly in range for shield throws anyway.

"Yes Lux gets bonus, bonus damage. But it doesn't multiply with lich bane, it just adds and she'd get it whether she had lich bane or not." She wouldn't get it at all, according to you, because she'd never be in range. So it does more than just add to it, it makes it more viable, and makes getting in 550 range and getting that shot off that much more rewarding, without being any more inconvenient than her innate is anyway. It takes advantage of her existing bonus to single auto attack, and adds to it, letting you use both her innate AND the lich bane more often, in tandem.

Her cooldowns (before CDR) are 12s/10s/11s/40s, which are maybe not super short like Ryze's Overload, but keep in mind Lich Bane has a 2s CD anyway, and you only get one buff per tight combo. Mix that with Lux's long range which gives her the ability to spam her abilities more regularly in a team fight than most mages, by having more potential targets during any phase of a team fight or laning or farming, which gives more regular opportunities to use them.

And her innate still synergizes perfectly with lich bane, unlike any of those other mages, who do not have such obvious synergies. That's the main point of the list.