Talk:Lux/@comment-4842500-20120523001952/@comment-4842500-20120524213152

it's like you say. People parrot the same bs that's fed to them. And while it's good to learn from the pros, sometimes people don't even seem to think for themselves, or at all for that matter, and just try to mimic builds/playstyles from others.

Personally I prefer the path of self-discovery. Instead of looking at wikis on how to build champions, I would rather learn the intricacies of a champion, discuss it with other players, and learn all the items available (a daunting task) and then build after choosing from what's available.

It's like the Guild Wars syndrome. Instead of actually learning how to play your character and its role and learning how to choose the right build and experimenting, people would follow solid builds from a stupid wiki but have no idea what they're doing.

Luckily for these idiots, LoL is alot less complicated than Guild Wars.

But looking at athene's is hilarious. Literally just looking at what it does and its cost, it's like buying morello's tome and getting a discount chalice for ~200g less and freeing up a slot.

Now there's like no reason to buy morello's anymore, unless you don't have any other item to max out your CDR.

I think the most hilarious part about chalice that I doubt anybody's ever tried is getting enough mana regen and max mana (not just lux, but any other champion)

Because there's a certain point that you'll reach that it'll literally be impossible to run out of mana, or have a moment where you don't have enough mana to do your full combo.

I've spectated games with people following solid builds from some stupid wiki, and I've seen them run out of mana. Then what? Sit around and do nothing but last hit? That doesn't fly with me. You should be capable of defending yourself at all times.

"HURRRR YOU A BADDIE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY LUX"

"HURRRRR GET GOLEM"

Like I said before, golem isn't a gaurantee. Sometimes there are other players that get golem, sometimes it even gets stolen. And let's not forget the fact that if you take the time to leave your lane to get golem, that's time spent away from your lane. Yeah I know there's some secret little method on how to do it cleverly, but the fact still remains.

But this is like kicking a dead horse. get chalice, everyone's happy...especially lux now *cue lux laugh*