Lux with Gwen
How to Synergize Lux and Gwen
based on 6,921 Lux with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Lux with Gwen
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Lux Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Lux in LoL
The Lux Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Lux perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux plays on the same team as Gwen, she observes a little decrease in her total damage output. This change could signal that Gwen does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gwen.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Gwen on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gwen does a poor job of protecting Lux in teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best ally for Lux that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Gwen is a below average companion for Lux. By locking into the same team as Lux, she decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Lux and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Lux. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Gwen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Lux and Gwen together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to work well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Lux and Gwen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Lux players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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