Support Matchup

Lux vs Xerath

Patch: 15.15 (25.15)
League: Platinum+
Lux

Lux

the Lady of Luminosity
Support
Lux Support Overall Win Rate
48.11%

Matchup Win Rate

48.7%
Lux vs Xerath Wins
⚔
51.3%
Xerath vs Lux Wins
Xerath

Xerath

the Magus Ascendant
Support
Xerath Support Overall Win Rate
48.96%

Lux vs Xerath - Support Matchup Guide Patch 15.15 (25.15)

Lux Support vs Xerath Support - Who is stronger?

Lux Support struggles against Xerath (48.7% win rate) based on 1411 games. This matchup can be tricky for Lux players.

View detailed statistics below: items, runes, and counter builds for Lux Support vs Xerath Support in patch 15.15 (25.15), including win rates and pick rates. With proper study, this can improve your chances of victory up to 73.9% in this matchup.

Statistical Matchup Analysis

Lux dominates the meta (8th most popular, 6.4% pick rate) and regularly clashes with Xerath (3.0% pick rate). Understanding this common matchup forms the foundation of consistent gameplay for one of support's current powerhouses. Every edge matters: In this tough matchup, the proven Dark Harvest + Cheap Shot combination (51.6% win rate) plus optimal itemization Luden's Companion, Stormsurge, Malignance, and Sorcerer's Shoes boosts your chances from 48.7% to 73.9% - potentially game-changing.

Vision advantage: Despite losing the direct matchup, Lux's superior warding (0.81 wards/min, 40th among supports) can swing team fights and objectives in your favor. Outclassed across the board: Xerath leads in both matchup win rate (51.3%) and damage (667 vs 578/min). Lux must seek alternative win conditions through macro play and team coordination. Complete dominance by Xerath: leads in both matchup win rate (51.3%) and KDA (2.60 vs 2.40, 20th vs 30th place). Lux players need exceptional preparation to overcome this counter-pick.

Lux vs Xerath - Support Stats Comparison

Lux Support
Lux Support		Versus
Xerath Support
Xerath Support
CTierB
48.7%Matchup Winrate51.3%
48.11%Role Winrate48.96%
#44Winrate Rank#35
6.4%Pickrate3.0%
2.4Average KDA2.6
331Gold per Minute340
0.81Wards per Minute0.78
578Damage per Minute667

How to Beat Xerath as Lux (Support)

Despite the slight difference in effectiveness, in the Lux versus Xerath matchup as support, neither champion has an overwhelming advantage. The winner is determined by player skill and understanding the intricacies of the confrontation. Studying this guide will improve your chances of success.

The magic damage that Lux deals remains relevant in the late game. Look for opportunities to initiate or counter-initiate. Meanwhile, Xerath deals primarily magic damage (93.64%), additional magic resistance may be required.

An important advantage of Lux is superior vision control (ranked 40th among supports) (versus 45th for Xerath), which provides better map control and safety for the team in important map areas. Meanwhile, their higher KDA (2.6 versus 2.4) suggests they participate more effectively in team fights.

Key aspects of the Lux Support versus Xerath Support matchup

In this difficult confrontation, it is critically important for the Lux player to avoid attempts to force trades and all-ins with the Xerath player, as the matchup requires a patient and calculated approach. Extended trades without clear tactical advantage often lead to unfavorable consequences, and ignoring opportunities to receive team support can be a fatal mistake for game progression.

Lux vs Xerath: Support Summoner Spells

Most Popular

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Ignite
Ignite Deals true damage over time to target enemy champion and reduces healing effects on them for the duration.
44.6% Win Rate49.9% Pick Rate

Highest Win Rate

Flash
Flash Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Teleport
Teleport After a brief channel, become untargetable and travel to an allied unit. Upgrades into Unleashed Teleport, which significantly increases travel speed.
60.3% Win Rate0.5% Pick Rate

Lux vs Xerath: Support Runes

Most Frequent Runes

Primary Path
Sorcery
Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a comet at their location, or, if Arcane Comet is on cooldown, reduces its remaining cooldown.

Adaptive Damage: 30 - 130 based on level (+0.05 AP and +0.1 bonus AD)
Cooldown: 20 - 8s

Cooldown Reduction:
Single Target: 20%.
Area of Effect: 10%.
Damage over Time: 5%.

Arcane Comet

Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a comet at their location, or, if Arcane Comet …

Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum ma…

Transcendence
Transcendence Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5 Ability Haste
Level 8: +5 Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level…

Scorch
Scorch Your next damaging ability hit sets champions on fire dealing 20 - 40 bonus magic damage based on level after 1s.

Cooldown: 10s

Scorch

Your next damaging ability hit sets champions on fire dealing 20 - 40 bonus mag…

Secondary Path
Domination
Cheap Shot
Cheap Shot Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).

Cooldown: 4s
Activates on damage occurring after the impairment.

Cheap Shot

Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true d…

Ultimate Hunter
Ultimate Hunter Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

Ultimate Hunter

Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bou…

Adaptive
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

46.8% Win Rate51.8% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Runes

Primary Path
Domination
Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest Damaging a Champion below 50% health deals adaptive damage and harvests their soul, permanently increasing Dark Harvest's damage by 11.

Dark Harvest damage: 30 (+11 damage per soul) (+0.1 bonus AD) (+0.05 AP)
Cooldown: 35s (resets to 1.0s on takedown)

Dark Harvest

Damaging a Champion below 50% health deals adaptive damage and harvests their soul, perma…

Cheap Shot
Cheap Shot Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).

Cooldown: 4s
Activates on damage occurring after the impairment.

Cheap Shot

Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true d…

Grisly Mementos
Grisly Mementos Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.

Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected. In game modes where vision Trinkets do not exist, instead gain 3 Summoner Spell Haste.

Grisly Mementos

Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.Gain 6 Trinket Haste fo…

Ultimate Hunter
Ultimate Hunter Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

Ultimate Hunter

Your ultimate gains 6 Ability Haste, plus an additional 5 Ability Haste per Bou…

Secondary Path
Sorcery
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum ma…

Transcendence
Transcendence Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5 Ability Haste
Level 8: +5 Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level…

Adaptive
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Adaptive Force

Grants 9 Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power

Scaling Health
Scaling Health Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

Scaling Health

Increases health from 10 to 180 HP across levels 1-18

51.6% Win Rate19.8% Pick Rate

Lux vs Xerath: Support Item Builds

Most Popular Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
World Atlas
World Atlas (400 gold)
Health Potion
Health Potion (50 gold) Consume
Restores 120 Health over 15 seconds.
43.7% Win Rate83.8% Pick Rate
Popular Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes (1100 gold) 12 Magic Penetration
45 Move Speed
47.4% Win Rate75.1% Pick Rate
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity (900 gold) 10 Ability Haste
45 Move Speed
Ionian Insight
Gain 10 Summoner Spell Haste.
48.3% Win Rate12.2% Pick Rate
Boots of Swiftness
Boots of Swiftness (1000 gold) 60 Move Speed
Fleetfooted
Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.
65.6% Win Rate0.9% Pick Rate
Core Build
Lost Chapter
Lost Chapter (1200 gold) 40 Ability Power
300 Mana
10 Ability Haste
Enlighten
Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
->
Luden's Companion
Luden's Companion (2850 gold) 100 Ability Power
600 Mana
10 Ability Haste
Fire
Damaging Abilities fire 6 Shots that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Shots fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
Stormsurge
Stormsurge (2900 gold) 90 Ability Power
15 Magic Penetration
4% Move Speed
Stormraider
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum Health within 2.5s applies Squall to them and grants 25% Move Speed for 1.5 seconds.
Squall
After 2 seconds, deal magic damage. If the target dies before Squall triggers, it damages nearby enemies and grants 30 gold.
Shadowflame
Shadowflame (3200 gold) 110 Ability Power
15 Magic Penetration
Cinderbloom
Magic and true damageCritically Strikes enemies below 40% Health, dealing 20% increased damage.
63.2% Win Rate16.8% Pick Rate
Final Build
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap (3600 gold) 130 Ability Power
Magical Opus
Increases your total Ability Power by 30%.
59.1% Win Rate20.5% Pick Rate

Best Win Rate Build

Starting Items
Stealth Ward
Stealth Ward (0 gold) Active (210 - 120s, max 2 charges)
Places an Invisible Stealth Ward that grants vision for 90-120 seconds.
Boots
Boots (300 gold) 25 Move Speed
Health Potion
Health Potion (50 gold) Consume
Restores 120 Health over 15 seconds.
79.0% Win Rate0.7% Pick Rate
Highest Winrate Boots
Boots of Swiftness
Boots of Swiftness (1000 gold) 60 Move Speed
Fleetfooted
Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.
65.6% Win Rate0.9% Pick Rate
Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps (1200 gold) 25 Armor
45 Move Speed
Plating
Reduces incoming damage from Attacks by 10%.
50.4% Win Rate0.2% Pick Rate
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity (900 gold) 10 Ability Haste
45 Move Speed
Ionian Insight
Gain 10 Summoner Spell Haste.
48.3% Win Rate12.2% Pick Rate
Core Build
Lost Chapter
Lost Chapter (1200 gold) 40 Ability Power
300 Mana
10 Ability Haste
Enlighten
Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
->
Luden's Companion
Luden's Companion (2850 gold) 100 Ability Power
600 Mana
10 Ability Haste
Fire
Damaging Abilities fire 6 Shots that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Shots fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
Stormsurge
Stormsurge (2900 gold) 90 Ability Power
15 Magic Penetration
4% Move Speed
Stormraider
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum Health within 2.5s applies Squall to them and grants 25% Move Speed for 1.5 seconds.
Squall
After 2 seconds, deal magic damage. If the target dies before Squall triggers, it damages nearby enemies and grants 30 gold.
Malignance
Malignance (2700 gold) 85 Ability Power
600 Mana
15 Ability Haste
Scorn
Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
Hatefog
Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
73.9% Win Rate5.1% Pick Rate
Final Build
Shadowflame
Shadowflame (3200 gold) 110 Ability Power
15 Magic Penetration
Cinderbloom
Magic and true damageCritically Strikes enemies below 40% Health, dealing 20% increased damage.
100.0% Win Rate8.3% Pick Rate
Other Items
Malignance
Malignance (2700 gold) 85 Ability Power
600 Mana
15 Ability Haste
Scorn
Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
Hatefog
Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
49.9% Win Rate16.8% Pick Rate
Void Staff
Void Staff (3000 gold) 95 Ability Power
40% Magic Penetration
25.1% Win Rate16.6% Pick Rate
Zhonya's Hourglass
Zhonya's Hourglass (3250 gold) 105 Ability Power
50 Armor

Time Stop
Enter Stasis for 2.5 seconds.
0.0% Win Rate12.5% Pick Rate
Morellonomicon
Morellonomicon (2950 gold) 75 Ability Power
350 Health
15 Ability Haste
Grievous Wounds
Dealing magic damage to champions applies 40% Wounds for 3 seconds.
98.7% Win Rate4.2% Pick Rate
Liandry's Torment
Liandry's Torment (3000 gold) 70 Ability Power
300 Health
Torment
Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
Suffering
For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
0.0% Win Rate4.2% Pick Rate
Horizon Focus
Horizon Focus (2700 gold) 75 Ability Power
25 Ability Haste
Hypershot
Dealing Ability damage to champions at 600 range or greater Reveals them for 6 seconds.
Deal 10% increased damage to enemies Revealed by this item.
Focus
When Hypershot is triggered, Reveal all other enemy champions within 1400 range of them for 3 seconds.
99.4% Win Rate4.1% Pick Rate

Lux vs Xerath: Support Skill (abilities) Orders

Most Frequent Skill Order

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Q
Q
Light Binding Lux releases a sphere of light that binds and deals damage to up to two enemy units.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
W
W
Prismatic Barrier Lux throws her wand and bends the light around any friendly target it touches, protecting them from enemy damage.
W
W
W
W
W
E
E
Lucent Singularity Fires an anomaly of twisted light to an area, which slows nearby enemies. Lux can detonate it to damage enemies in the area of effect.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
Final Spark After gathering energy, Lux fires a beam of light that deals damage to all targets in the area. In addition, triggers Lux's passive ability and refreshes the Illumination debuff duration.
R
R
R
Max Order: E > Q > W
44.2% Win Rate48.0% Pick Rate

Highest Win % Skill Order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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12
13
14
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R
Q
Light Binding Lux releases a sphere of light that binds and deals damage to up to two enemy units.
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
R
W
Prismatic Barrier Lux throws her wand and bends the light around any friendly target it touches, protecting them from enemy damage.
W
W
W
W
W
R
E
Lucent Singularity Fires an anomaly of twisted light to an area, which slows nearby enemies. Lux can detonate it to damage enemies in the area of effect.
E
E
E
E
E
R
R
Final Spark After gathering energy, Lux fires a beam of light that deals damage to all targets in the area. In addition, triggers Lux's passive ability and refreshes the Illumination debuff duration.
R
R
R
Max Order: E > Q > W
78.7% Win Rate1.3% Pick Rate

Lux tips:

  • Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
  • 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.
  • Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.

Playing Against Xerath

  • Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
  • Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
  • Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.

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+3.9%
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+3.5%
Senna

Lux vs Senna

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+2.6%
Neeko

Lux vs Neeko

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+2.5%
Seraphine

Lux vs Seraphine

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+2.4%
Rakan

Lux vs Rakan

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+2.4%
Morgana

Lux vs Morgana

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+2.0%
Rell

Lux vs Rell

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+0.8%
Vel'Koz

Lux vs Vel'Koz

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-0.2%
Braum

Lux vs Braum

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-0.7%
Fiddlesticks

Lux vs Fiddlesticks

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-1.1%
Thresh

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-1.2%
Bard

Lux vs Bard

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-1.3%
Lulu

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Lux
-1.3%
Shaco

Lux vs Shaco

Lux
-1.7%
Nami

Lux vs Nami

Lux
-1.7%
Sona

Lux vs Sona

Lux
-1.9%
Soraka

Lux vs Soraka

Lux
-2.1%
Leona

Lux vs Leona

Lux
-2.2%
Pantheon

Lux vs Pantheon

Lux
-2.6%
Nautilus

Lux vs Nautilus

Lux
-2.8%
Blitzcrank

Lux vs Blitzcrank

Lux
-3.0%
Alistar

Lux vs Alistar

Lux
-3.1%
Zilean

Lux vs Zilean

Lux
-3.2%
Pyke

Lux vs Pyke

Lux
-3.4%
Tahm Kench

Lux vs Tahm Kench

Lux
-3.4%
Milio

Lux vs Milio

Lux
-3.8%
Janna

Lux vs Janna

Lux
-3.9%
Yuumi

Lux vs Yuumi

Lux
-4.9%
Karma

Lux vs Karma

Lux
-5.4%
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