Talk:Lux/@comment-85.207.18.54-20120212205505/@comment-4842500-20120225121811

Her W is the shittiest shield I ever had the misfortune of using. Honestly it's the hardest skillshot of the entire arsenal to land from my experience, and literally the ONLY saving grace it has is that it is able to affect multiple allies.

Other than that, I really hate it. It's extremely weak especially when compared to shields from other characters and because of the strength and functionality of the skill it hardly negates that much damage.

The base strength and ratio is utterly the worst, it lasts for 3+3 seconds (and most of the time damage from enemies will pierce through the shield before your wand returns, and that's WITH an AP build), and if you wanted to level up the shield early on instead of last, you're basically robbing power and CDR from your Q, or damage and slow from your E , and considering her subpar damage and high cooldowns (especially when your ult is on CD), you seriously don't want that, especially her E for clearing minion waves.

Unlike other champions Like say Janna, Karma, and Orianna, if you level up the shield your DPS doesn't suffer that badly because they all have damage aspects to it, besides the fact their shield is actually GOOD.

Other than that, the only times it has saved me is when running away and casting it in the direction i'm running in because it refreshes faster preventing enemy damage from penetrating and robbing me those last shreds of HP, and that's rare. Most of the time the damage will just run right through me.