Talk:Lich Bane/@comment-635932-20110301115752/@comment-75.185.27.77-20110301231246

I took her off because I see her as having no better synergy with Lich Bane than the average mage.

You could site her passive, however, her passive, past mid-game, is really used for only 2 things: -farming creeps -being detonated with her ultimate.

Quite simply, due to the range on Lux's spells, and the fact that lux has no business being front lines, she really won't get to USE lich bane's passive in a team fight.

Aside from that, she lacks a spammable spell to keep a lich bane proc up. So, in a team fight, lux will likely have no more than two lich bane proc available and, chances are good that she'll only use ONE of those two, if she uses any at all. It's a REALLY expensive item if you can't reliably use its passive.

The only time she reliably detonates the passive with an auto-attack is during the laning phase, but there's no WAY you are rushing a lich bane on her quickly enough to have one during any part of the laning phase.

Look at the list right now. It is filled with mages who rely on auto attacks for some of their DPS (sion and akali, for example), or with phys units playing as an AP variant (like shaco or ezreal).

The only true mages on this list are Veigar and Ryze. Veigar due to his ability to reach MASSIVE AP levels reliably, making lich bane's passive a VERY strong phys nuke. Ryze due to the fact that he gets bonus scaling from thew mana on lich bane, his REALLY low cooldowns mean he'll ALWAYS have a proc up when it's possible and that his cast range and auto attack range are essentially the same, so he'll be in range for the proc.

For other mages, lich bane is rarely worth it. But even they would fare better with it than lux I would say. Take the quintessential mage: Annie, for example. Due to her stun, she can safely get close enough to hit with a lich bane proc, and her auto attack range is longer than the range on some of her spells. In fact, MOST mages have a longer auto-attack range than spell range, making MOST mages use lich bane more reliably than Lux.

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. Even if the enemy ambushes lux and she gets close enough to hit them with an auto attack, she should really be focusing on retreating, not attacking.

So, in summary, due to playing HEAVILY outside of her auto-attack range by the time she'd get the item and not having a single "spamable" spell, Lux is inferior to the majority of the mage cast at using lich bane. And since there's no way we'd put EVERY mage on the list, she shouldn't be on it either.