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Lux, the Lady of Luminosity

Full Name: Luxanna Crownguard

"Let's light it up!"

Voiced by:
Carrie Keranen (English)
Mar Bordallo (European Spanish)
Marta Fernanda (Mexican Spanish)
Shizuka Itō (Japanese)
Christiane Monteiro (Brazilian Portuguese)
Sae-Hae Kim (Korean)
Olga Golovanova (Russian/Original)
Alexandra Kuragina (Russian/Current)
Appears In: Legends of Runeterra, League of Legends: Lux, The Mageseeker, Katarina, Valoran Town

"The light inside is what makes me different, and I’m always careful where I shine it."

Luxanna Crownguard hails from Demacia, an insular realm where magical abilities are viewed with fear and suspicion. Able to bend light to her will, she grew up dreading discovery and exile, and was forced to keep her power secret, in order to preserve her family’s noble status. Nonetheless, Lux’s optimism and resilience have led her to embrace her unique talents, and she now covertly wields them in service of her homeland.

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Lux is a Burst Mage/Artillery Mage hybrid champion who excels at fighting from afar, flinging spells from the backlines to both burst down her enemies and assist her allies.

• Her passive, Illumination, marks enemies damaged by Lux's abilities with light for a few seconds, with her next basic attack against them consuming the mark to deal bonus damage.
• Her first ability, Light Binding, fires a ball of light in a target direction, damaging and briefly immobilizing the first enemy it hits. The sphere then continues travelling to the end of its range, applying the same effects to the second enemy it hits.
• With her second ability, Prismatic Barrier, Lux throws out her wand like a boomerang in a target direction, shielding both herself and any allied champion the wand touches both in the way out and back.
• Her third ability, Lucent Singularity, sends out a light sphere at a target location, slowing and revealing nearby enemies. After a few seconds, or when the ability is reactivated, the sphere bursts, damaging nearby foes.
• With her ultimate ability, Final Spark, Lux gathers light before firing a giant, long-range laser beam in a target direction, heavily damaging enemies in its path and triggering and refreshing her Illumination marks on them.

Lux's alternate skins include Spellthief Lux, Sorceress Lux, Commando Lux, Imperial Lux, Steel Legion Lux, Star Guardian Lux, Elementalist Lux, Lunar Empress Lux, Pajama Guardian Lux, Battle Academia Lux, Prestige Battle Academia Lux, Cosmic Lux, Dark Cosmic Lux, Space Groove Lux, Porcelain Lux, Prestige Porcelain Lux, Empyrean Lux, and Soul Fighter Lux. Wild Rift exclusively includes Crystal Rose Lux and Lovestruck Lux.

In season 2 of Teamfight Tactics, the season called Rise of the Elements, Lux uses her Elementalist Lux skin and is consequently a unique centerpiece unit, a Tier 7 Variable Avatar. Her ability is Final Spark, which fires an elemental blast that does massive damage to all enemies it hits and restores a large portion of her mana if it kills at least one unit. In season 3, she was changed to use her Dark Cosmic Lux skin and became a 3 cost Dark Star Sorcerer. Her ability was changed to Lurid Binding, which fires a sphere of darkness that deals magic damage and stuns all enemies hit. She was removed in the Return to the Stars mid-set update. Season 4 sees her return in her Lunar Empress skin as a Tier 3 Divine Dazzler, using the Light Binding ability, which works roughly the same as Lurid Binding. She was removed along with the Dazzler class in the Festival of Beasts mid-set update. She returns in season 5 using the same skin as a Tier 3 Redeemed Mystic. Her ability was changed to Prismatic Illumination, which throws Lux's wand towards the farthest ally before returning to her, shielding herself and all allies hit by the wand, while also empowering her next basic attack to deal bonus magic damage. In season 6, she uses her Battle Academia Lux skin and is a Tier 4 Academy Arcanist, with Final Spark returning as her ability. She was removed along with the Academy origin in the Neon Nights mid-set update, returning in season 7's Uncharted Realms mid-set update using her Cosmic Lux skin as a Tier 2 Astral Mage. Her Cosmic Flare ability fires a star toward the farthest enemy dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and a reduced amount to all subsequent enemies. In season 8, she uses her Star Guardian Lux skin and is a Tier 1 Star Guardian Spellslinger. Her Lucent Singularity ability fires a singularity at a random enemy, reducing their attack damage for a few seconds and dealing magic damage in a small area around them. In season 9, she uses her base skin and was changed to a Tier 4 Demacia Sorcerer. Her Torrent of Light ability channels a beam onto her current target for a few seconds, dealing heavy magic damage and applying a stacking magic resistance each second that lasts for the rest of combat. If her original target dies, Lux redirects the beam to a new target for its remaining duration. She was removed in the Horizonbound mid-set update, returning in season 10 using her Empyrean Lux skin as a Tier 3 EDM Dazzler. Her Laser Light Show ability is identical to Final Spark aside from no longer restoring mana on kills. In season 11, she uses her Porcelain Lux skin and is a Tier 2 Porcelain Arcanist. Her Bunny Binding ability throws a bunny at the farthest enemy, dealing magic damage to all enemies in its path which is reduced for each consecutive target, and stunning the first two enemies hit.

In Legends of Runeterra, Lux is a 5-mana 3/5 Demacia Champion with Barrier. When she sees you cast a combined 6+ mana worth of spells she levels up, gaining +1/+1, creating a Final Spark (a 0-mana Fleeting Slow spell which does 4 damage to an enemy unit which uniquely has Overwhelm, causing overkill damage to strike the enemy Nexus, or just does 4 damage to the enemy Nexus if they have no units) in your hand, and passively generating another Final Spark every time you spend another 6 mana on spells. Her signature spell is Lux's Prismatic Barrier.

In the set Dreamlit Paths, Lux: Illuminated is a 3-mana 1/2 Demacia Champion with Spirit. When she supports an ally in combat, that ally is given a stack of Spirit, and Lux herself gets Barrier for the turn. When allies have attacked with or gained 20+ total positive keywords while attacking (each stack of Spirit counts as a separate keyword), Lux levels up, gaining +1/+1, and whenever an ally gains Spirit, they get an additional stack. Her signature spell is Lux's Incandescence.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Sylas calls her "Little Light", which takes a darker turn once he escapes execution and wages his rebellion.
• Alliterative Name: Her ultimate was once called "Finales Funkeln". There's her name and title too: Lux the Lady of Luminosity.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's not entirely clear at the start of the "Lux" comic whether the Crownguard family was actually aware that Lux was born a mage, or whether they were only concerned about her getting in trouble for her sympathetic views towards mages. Regardless, Garen at least certainly knows that his sister is a mage by the end, as Lux not only openly demonstrates her full power in front of him but forces him to say aloud what she is so he can't live in denial ("A mage... and my sister.") and judging from her card flavor text in Legends of Runeterra, their Aunt Tianna certainly becomes aware at some point.
  • Uncle Eldred, leader of the Mageseeker order, also knows about Lux being a mage, and threatens to arrest Lux himself if she doesn't shut up about it.
• Armor Is Useless: She's wearing light armor on her torso (as befitting a battle mage) but she's still one of the squishiest mages in the game. Compare her to Morgana, who starts off slightly more resilient than Lux then gradually becomes even more so fighting in a gown.
• Arranged Marriage: In the comic, the Crownguard family arranged for Lux to marry Prince Jarvan IV in order to protect her from any prosecution for speaking out against Demacia's anti-magic doctrine. This was dropped by the end thanks to her choosing to disappear from the capitol and thus never showing up to the betrothal ceremony.
• The Artifact:
  • Light Binding was originally a spell Lux adapted from Morgana's Dark Binding, back when Morgana was an ally of Noxus and Lux was spying on them for Demacia. Later, Morgana was retconned into being a fallen protector of Demacia only known through vague legend (while living nearby in the guise of a local woods witch), while Lux was forced to hide her magical gifts in the service of Demacia. While the idea that she could have copied one of Morgana's powers is not impossible, her new lore doesn't actually address it, making it a bit of an anomaly.
  • Her model as of 2022 is the same one she's had since her launch in 2010. Barring a texture update, her model and animations have remained stagnant while other champs of her era have received complete visual overhauls to make them a higher fidelity. Not helping her League incarnation are subsequent works like LOR and wild Rift that drastically modernize her appearance to match League, and especially Demacia's, modern aesthetic.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Elementalist Lux wildly changes her outfit and hairstyle depending on what elemental form she's using.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Katarina interferes with her arrest by pretending to be a captain sent by Garen. But Lux, knowing her brother, can tell Kat is full of shit.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: At the end of The Mageseeker, Jarvan appoints her as acting governor of Terbisia, which has become a safe haven for Demacia's mages.
• Badass Adorable: She's a prodigiously powerful magician who acts and sounds like an innocent teenager.
• Badass Bookworm: Is well-educated in her background and proves it in-game with a joke line in which she (quickly) explains a double rainbow, as well as being a very talented student in magic to the point of being considered a prodigy.
• Barrier Warrior: Prismatic Barrier provides Lux and her team with extra defense. Her Legends of Runeterra incarnation makes this her champion spell, and she enters battle with a barrier from the get-go.
• Battle Cry: DEMACIAAA!. Something of a Catchphrase for all the Demacian characters.
• Be Yourself: Being a mage living in the anti-magic Demacia, Lux has had to stay repressed her whole life. She desires nothing more than to be accepted for who she is by her home, and that mages like her can no longer live in fear.
  She now understands that the Demacian way of life is not the only way, and with clear eyes she can see her love for her homeland standing alongside her desire to see it made more just... and perhaps a little more accepting of mages like her.

  The Lady of Luminosity
• Beware the Nice Ones: She might be one of the cheeriest champions in the game who uses light magic for the name of justice, but that doesn't mean she can't melt your face off with a giant laser flash.
  Elementalist Lux: Did someone mistake my sunny disposition for weakness?
• Bodyguard Legacy: The Crownguards are a long line of personal guards to the emperor of Demacia, the latest two being Garen and Lux. Garen plays the role straighter being a high-ranking official in the Demacian military and Emperor Jarvan IV's close friend since youth.
• Breast Plate: It's not the most noticeable part of her design, but still there. It's been mostly avoided in newer designs with exceptions, like the Lux comic.
• Brought Down to Normal: Briefly in the Lux comic. During Sylas' attack, she takes an elixir which temporarily shuts down her magic (normally used for Demacian prisoners) so Sylas can't copy it again or detect her as she approaches him with a normal crossbow.
• Characterization Marches On: Very slightly; Lux has always been characterized as an outwardly chipper and positive lady, but her original backstories framed her with a much darker undercurrent, suggesting that on the inside, she was a victim who was traumatized by her conscription into the Demacian military. Post-Continuity Reboot (primarily in her comic series), Lux's struggles come from her own personal turmoil of being a mage among a staunchly Anti-Magical Faction and accidentally igniting Sylas' revolution. This consequently makes her less idle and frames her as more in command of her own actions, leading to her being played as a more willingly rebellious yet thoughtful hero, one that Demacia may need more than they realize.
• Child Soldiers: Her old lore put her as this as an example of the dark side of Demacia. She was famous for being the youngest soldier in the Demacian army, but she didn't volunteer — her parents decided to give her to the Demacian military, requiring her to be dragged out of her home in tears.
• Color-Coded Characters: Of the Star Guardians, she's the pink-colored leader. For Elementalist Lux, each form has a distinct color scheme:
  • Light: White and light yellow.
  • Air: Light slate blue and grey.
  • Water: Aqua blue and light grey.
  • Fire: Orange and red.
  • Nature: Bright green and grey.
  • Ice: Light and dark blue.
  • Storm: Yellow, white, and light blue.
  • Mystic: Lavender and purple.
  • Magma: Red and black.
  • Dark: Purple and black.
• Combat Stilettos: Surprisingly, her default skin only has a modest heel for a female champion from so early on in the game's life, but almost all of her skins give her some fashionable high heels.
• Combos: A fairly straightforward but highly effective one by mage standards: Cast Light Binding to snare an enemy or two, throw a Lucent Singularity to soften them up a bit, then finish with Final Spark. This kind of combo is even encouraged by her passive which applies a mark on enemies that can be consumed for extra damaged.
  • By weaving auto attacks between her spells, Lux can utilize her passive to its fullest by consuming an Illumination mark on her target before the next spell applies it again, greatly increasing Lux's damage output. The downside is that you have to fight at close range to do this, making Lux more susceptible to return fire.
• Combo Platter Powers: Elementalist Lux blends her standard Light 'em Up abilities with mixtures of different elemental aesthetics, including darkness itself.
• Conspicuous Gloves: In her comic series, Lux wears a pair of gloves akin to how Elsa does in Frozen- to hide her powers, which cause her hands to glow.
• Curtains Match the Window: Exaggerated with Elementalist Lux; in all 10 forms, her eye color changes to fit her hair color.
• Cute Witch: She doesn't fall into many "witch" tropes in her default design, but a few alternate skins invoke this, such as Sorceress Lux skin (which gives her an impressive witch hat) and several forms of Elementalist Lux, most especially her fae-inspired Mystic form.
• Depending on the Artist: A lot of champions have small design quirks depending on who's drawing/designing them across different media, but Lux gets a lot. In some art she'll have shorter hair, a more segmented look in her body suit, or her armor will have completely different decorations. Not even her face structure is consistent across different works.
• Disappears into Light: Lux's standard death involves her body falling to the ground before her corpse vanishes into light a few moments later.
• Elemental Powers: The gist of Elementalist Lux. While she still uses light abilities in general, as the game progresses she can choose between the (mostly) standard 4 elements twice, fusing them into a new form. In total, she has 10 forms: Her base light form, followed by fire, air, water, and nature, which can be combined to form ice, magma, mystic, storm, and dark.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Averted gameplay-wise, but if Elementalist Lux kills a champion, she might leave a different Bond One-Liner against enemies with appropriate elemental thematics (this even corresponds to individual skins). For example, if in Fire Mode she kills a "Water-type" champion such as Nami, Fizz, or even anyone using a Pool Party or pirate skin, she'll say something like "Sorry, but you got me steamed!"
• Enemy Mine: Lux and Sylas are still on bad terms with eachother, but when a rattleclaw attacks Lux's mage encampment, the two work together to defeat it. Later, when Lux is informed that the mageseekers are coming for them, she seeks out Sylas's aid in defending the camp. After the mageseekers are defeated for good, the two are still enemies but are on more amicable terms. At least until Sylas comes knocking on Demacia's door with the Winter's Claw in tow.
• Everybody Knew Already: While Lux had been led to believe that she was able to keep her status as a mage under wraps, Garen and the rest of her family are implied to already know (or at the very least suspect it), and were quietly making arrangements to protect her in case it was true. In the "Warriors 2020" cinematic, depending on how canon you interpret it, her being a mage may have been elevated to an Open Secret as none of the Demacian soldiers seem surprised by her when she busts out her light magic and summons Galio.
  • It is later revealed in The Mageseeker that Jarvan IV realized that the mageseeker order had consolidated too much power, and moved to disband the order, ending the persecution of mages, and becoming more accepting of magic. As of the events of Warriors, Lux (and every other mage in hiding) had no need to keep ther magic secret, hence why the Dauntless Vanguard did not flinch when Lux summoned Galio.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Most light-based effects in the game are a pure bright white/yellow/blue etc., but Lux's light magic is notably accented with rainbow-colored shimmers and refractions.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: Her ultimate has an outrageous maximum range, travels through walls and, barring her initial channel, hits instantly. So before you yell at her for missing the enemy right in the middle of a team fight, make sure she didn't just nail the support who just flashed to (apparent) safety.
• Fanservice: Her skins, while still tame compared to the other female champions in the game, still show off more skin than her base model, with a common theme among most of them being a skirt. Sorceress Lux puts her in a leather costume that exposes her navel, Star Guardian Lux sees her don Grade-A Zettai Ryouiki, Elementalist Lux gives her a more developed figure with a Navel-Deep Neckline to show it off, and Lunar Empress Lux puts her in a skintight dress, with the Rose Quartz chroma for it adding a Cleavage Window on top.
• Fiery Redhead: Literally with her Elemental Lux skin's fire and magma forms, where she looks and acts much more aggressively than her other forms.
• Finishing Move: Final Spark excels at blasting opponents on their last legs, having a chunky amount of base damage that scales hard with her AP. When used in tandem with her other abilities, the stack made by Illumination will be consumed to deal even more damage. Furthermore, the massive range of the beam can be used to steal kills on jungle objectives like the dragons and Baron Nashor.
• Foil: Gameplay-wise, she's this to her brother, Garen. While Garen is a frontline fighter who wants to be in the fray for long periods of time thanks to Judgment, Lux stays in the backline to fling spells from a safe distance. None of Garen's abilities have any utility for his team, as they're focused on dealing damage and making sure he gets out of the fight alive. Meanwhile, Lux has multiple forms of crowd control to lock down enemies and a shield to protect allies. While most of Garen's damage is done over time before executing a troublesome target with Demacian Justice, Lux specializes in long-range burst to obliterate enemies in an instant. He's also a manaless champion while Lux is heavily reliant on mana to be effective.
• Formfitting Wardrobe: Most noticeable in her default skin. Besides the Breast Plate she also wears a skintight bodysuit.
• Friendly Enemy: Her relationship with Sylas while he was still imprisoned; she first knew him as a murderer, but both found sympathy in each other through their common oppression as mages, with the two sharing information with each other in how to cope with their respective situations (though while he seems to value this friendship, Sylas had far more drastic and exploitative intentions). Their friendship fell apart after Sylas stole Lux's power to escape his execution and lead a rebellion against the Crown, critically injuring Garen- Lux refused to join Sylas' uprising and fought against him, enraging Sylas with her "ingratitude".
  • In The Mageseeker, Sylas travels to Lux's encampment in Terbisia to request her aid in taking down the Mageseeker order, however Lux still hasn't, and likely won't, forgiven Sylas and she still wants nothing to do with his revolution. However, when a Rattleclaw attacks the encampment, the two put aside their differences to defend the town from the beast. Later, after Lux is informed that Wisteria is heading her way with the Mageseekers to execute everyone there, Lux seeks out aid from Sylas's band of rebels to defend the town from the mageseekers.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: In the lore, part of her job is infiltration and stealing of secrets. This is where she got hold of the idea behind Morgana's Dark Binding and reverse-engineered it into her own ability Light Binding Ability.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: According to her first biography, she can manipulate light to make herself invisible. She can do nothing of the sort in the game. Her original design included a spell that could stealth allied units, but it turned out to be so difficult to balance that it was replaced with a simpler shield spell.
• Glacier Waif: Her lack of any meaningful mobility is one of her biggest weaknesses, but is offset by the sheer power and utility she provides for a team.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: In the "Warriors 2020" cinematic, her irises start glowing a bright white as she builds up her light magic.
• Goofy Print Underwear: In her Star Guardian skin and the Mystic form of her Elementalist skin. Star Guardian Lux has a star on the back of her panties (as most of the Star Guardians do), while the Mystic form has a butterfly on the back. While her Porcelain skin has just regular white underwear, the Prestige variant puts a little bunny on the front of her panties.

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• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold. The kind, cheery girl who makes rainbows has blonde hair.
• Hartman Hips: Has rather wide hips, made more evident by skins like Elementalist.
• Herd-Hitting Attack: Lucent Singularity turns a chunk of the battlefield into a remote explosive, damaging everything caught in it. Lux gets a lot of mileage tossing it out amid a crowded teamfight.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Ends up forming this with her brother Garen. While Lux is a decently tall lady, standing at 5'10", she becomes small when put next to her colossal brother.
• Hurricane of Puns: She makes plenty of light-based puns in her default voiceover, and about half of Elementalist Lux's voiceover is a relentless cavalcade of element-appropriate wordplay. Her ban quote lampshades this trope.
  Lux: But all my light puns would have brightened your day!
• Informed Ability: Once she arrived in the Demacian Capital for the first time, Lux apparently began studying martial arts, though this is never something seen in gameplay given that she's a ranged spellcaster.
• Improbable Weapon User: While she fights with magic and light, what most people assume to be a staff or wand is, at least in her default skin, a baton.
• In the Name of the Moon: Prior to her voiceover update and lore retcon, Lux had this as one of her taunts.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: And she definitely sounds pretty damn innocent.
• Interspecies Friendship: She forged a brief, but evidently lasting one between Galio when she was younger, sharing a bond over how their magical natures conflict with their Demacian identities.
  "With my magic and your anti-magic, there's nothing we can't accomplish!"
• Irony: A piece of Demacia propaganda derides Noxian soldiers as "Serving under a banner as an empty husk". Now think about the time Lux had to serve as a Child Soldier.
• Kamehame Hadouken: Her ultimate certainly tips its hat to this trope with her animation of casting it pointing her palms in the direction she's firing (but while holding her staff in both hands). If you watch the animation closely, for a short time she floats and her legs point in the direction she's firing as well!
• Laser Sight: A red line appears down the center of the path of her ultimate just before she fires it. The actual laser is much, much bigger.
• Lead the Target: Lux players with a good sense of movement prediction can use this to snipe targets with Final Spark even after they disappear into the Fog of War. The fact that the ability gives vision of the blasting zone just before it goes off lets players know if they succeeded, if they just barely overshot/undershot the target, or if they aimed at the wrong place entirely.
• The Leader: Of the Burning Bright team of Star Guardians. She is also the leader of the Porcelain Protectors.
• Light 'em Up: Quotes the trope name verbatim, and all her abilities use light in some form or another. As Elementalist Lux, even when she changes her element, she still incorporates light magic in her abilities.
• Light Is Good: Wears bright clothing and has light-based magic. While she's also a victim of some of Demacia's questionable parts, Lux is still a good-hearted lady at heart.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Empyrean Lux escaped prosecution from her alternate universe's Demacia as a result of Pyke's actions collapsing her realm, being granted powers from the Foreglow and being born as an Empyrean. However, said powers burn her and the other Empyreans away from the inside, so Lux chooses to live what life she has left to the fullest.
• Long-Range Fighter: Her spells have a tremendous amount of reach and coverage, letting her play way in the backline and landing powerful spells to blow up her enemies. Get up close to her though and it's bad news for her.
• Magic Staff: One of her key design elements, and a conduit for channeling her powerful light magic. It's revealed, in League of Legends: Lux, to be a gift from another mage named Cim.
• Magical Girl: She was created by Japanese designer Shurelia to specifically reflect this archetype, possessing the archetypical bubbly personality and sparkly powers. Her Star Guardian Lux skin drops all pretense and turns her into a sailor-suited cutie.
• Magikarp Power:
  • Lux entirely hinges on her abilities to apply any sort of pressure, which is hard to do in early game as her mana pool is low and her cooldowns pretty high, and without mobility or high defense, she could have a very rough time against enemy teams if they decide to focus her down. Once she gets the ball rolling on her items and the game shifts towards teamfighting, her damage, crowd control, and shielding potential coalesces together in a more useful way.
  • This carries over to LOR as well: until she levels up, she's a pretty basic unit with okay stats and barrier; not the worst, but not much utility either. Once you get her to level 2 though, suddenly the enemy has to worry about all the spell cards you're funneling to her, allowing her to generate her Final Spark spell. Said spell can one shot anything below a certain HP count, and deal the remaining damage to the enemy nexus if they're below that number. This makes Lux a very threatening control unit to have on your side of the board.
• Mascot: Bar none one of the most popular characters in all of League of Legends. Lux is up there with champs like Jinx, Ahri and Yasuo for most marketed and receives skins and cosmetics at a very generous rate. She's also the champion that headlines Demacia in Legends of Runeterra and is one of the main characters of ''Wild Rift's animated cinematic.
• Master of None: With a little bit of everything in her kit, Lux is a mage that's viable in a number of roles: she has an immobilizing snare like a catcher, a shield to grant allies like an enchanter, and incredibly powerful burst damage like...Well, a burst mage. She's seen success being played in mid lane, bottom lane, and as support. As to how she compares to other mages though, other champs benefit from kits tailored to getting the most out of their dedicated roles, in a way that Lux can't match (i.e. Morgana is a more consistent catcher, Lulu is a more versatile enchanter, Annie has even more burst damage). So while her utility is definitely useful, she doesn't have the same kind of direct specialization that many other mages do.
• Meaningful Name: 'Lux' means 'light' in Latin. It is also a unit used in measuring the brightness and intensity of light.
• Morality Pet:
  • To Garen; while normally not questioning his orders from the King in Demacia's mage persecution, Garen starts to question this loyalty when it comes to his sister. Eventually he breaks protocol in order to save Lux from being rounded up with the other mages, offering her a chance to escape with a group of refugees.
  • To Sylas; she's one of the few Demacian champs he shows any level of respect or affection for due to them both suffering under the same persecution. She's also the only other champion in Mageseeker that he doesn't battle at any point, with every other Demacian champ that appears being a boss at some point.
• Motor Mouth: A mild but noticeable example in her in-game lines, especially in one of her joke lines when she explains a double rainbow.
• Multi-Slot Character: For a first in Legends of Runeterra, Lux has two different Champion cards. She initially debuted simply as "Lux" as one of the debut Champion cards at the game's launch, and later during the "Dreamlit Paths" expansion, she would receive the "Lux: Illuminated" card to serve as a Player Character option for the single-player Path of Champions mode.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Issue #3 of Lux's comic was not kind to her, as she blamed herself for not only getting Sylas condemned to death, but also causing the massacre he enacts- first by teaching him how to use Petricite as a weapon, then by providing him with the magic he needs to escape, leading to him seriously wounding her brother Garen.
• Never Tell Me the Odds!: Elementalist's light form quote: "Fight the good fight, odds be damned."
• Nice Girl: In addition to her overall sunny and kind demeanor, even her taunts towards enemy champions lack any form of genuine malice.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Lux's compassion towards Sylas is what allowed him to copy Lux's magic, break out of prison, and kill a bunch of people in the process and later a brutal crackdown led by Jarvan IV who orders ANYONE associated with a mage persecuted. This causes her to finally abandon Demacia to save the few mages not yet caught.
  • On the other side of the coin, it was when her family learned about her associating with the hated criminal that they pulled some strings to have his sentence of life imprisonment immediately changed to execution, setting the events of his escape in motion.
  • In the Katarina comic, Lux informs Katarina (who is disguised as a peasant) that King Jarvan III is not at Sylas' public execution, but instead being protected in the palace. Katarina takes advantage of the chaos to hide in the King's lockdown chamber, allowing her to assassinate him without incident. This was the murder that Sylas was wrongly blamed for and kickstarted the Great Mage Rebellion and Jarvan IV's crackdown of mages.
• Odd Friendship: She has this with the wild and explosive Jinx, mostly in Star Guardians but a bit in canon Runeterra as well.
  • As Star Guardians the two are almost polar opposites, Lux being a kind and dedicated leader working to overcome the hurdles of her responsibility, while Jinx is a troubled, reluctant hero who's best qualities are only brought out because of Lux's love.
    While Jinx scoffs at protecting a world she doesn't trust, she does believe in her childhood friend Lux—and if someone could see into the depths of Jinx's heart, they'd see a furious, burning need to keep those she holds dear out of harm's way, at any cost.
  • In the Wild Rift cinematic, Jinx is the one that carts Lux away to the Summoner's Rift where the latter can live out her own power fantasies.
    Lux: "We can do this!"
    Jinx: "H'yeah! Wait, do what?"
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot:
  • Lux kinda does this when she taunts an enemy Lucian. She realizes it near the end too.
    Lux: I'm sure your wife forgives you for getting her soul taken by a remorseless creature of darkness...
  • Lux also does this when taunting Leona.
    Lux: You brought the sun to a light fight? That... was... probably a good choice, actually...
• Parental Abandonment: Before the retcon, Lux's parents casually gave her over to the Demacian military to serve the state at the age of 13, all without the slightest hint of regret or reluctance.
• Personality Powers: Lux has a considerably bright and cheerful attitude, coinciding with her using light magic. Elementalist Lux actually has her fluctuate between personality types depending on her elemental form, going from gentle and light with Air and Water, to more loud and aggressive with Fire and Magma, etc.
• Power Crutch: While Lux doesn't need a staff in order to use her magic, as seen in the comic and her level 2 card in Legends of Runeterra, it's implied that she has more control when using one, as seen at the end of her comic. It doesn't necessarily need to be hers, as she picked up a staff from a fallen Freljordian shaman in the Warriors 2020 cinematic, since she didn't have hers with her.
• Power Gives You Wings: Soul Fighter Lux gains a pair of wings as she casts her ultimate. Also, the Mystic form of Elementalist Lux, since she transforms into a fairy.
  • In the key art for Legends of Runeterra set "Dreamlit Paths", Lux is depicted with angelic wings made of light while also wielding the Seraph's Embrace item from League instead of her usual staff.
• Power Incontinence: When Lux first discovers her magic, she has a difficult time controlling it and has to hide it from her family and Demacian society at large. Her comic series depicts it as a soft glow from her hand she physically has to cover up even while gloved, though Sylas manages to teach her a technique to properly control and conceal it.
• Precision F-Strike: Not quite a harsh curse, but it's still surprising to hear Elementalist Lux exclaim "Damnit!" in her joke.
• Pretty Butterflies: Elementalist Lux's Mystic form has a lot of these as a motif.
• Pungeon Master: Elementalist Lux LOVES making puns based on whatever elemental mode she's currently in. A few choice examples:
  (attacking in Air Form) "No gust, no glory!"
  (firing Final Spark in Nature Form) "KA-BLOOM!"
  (after a killing spree in Air Form) "They should have erred on the side of caution."
  (while transforming into Fire Form) "I'm the new hotness!"
  (killing Zyra, Maokai, or Ivern while in Nature Form) "What a sap."
  (killing a "Fire" enemy in Water Form) "You're just no match for me."
  (after a killing spree in Storm Form) "Lightning strikes!"
• Rage Within the Machine: She commits the act of treason by helping mages escape Jarvan's crackdown after Sylas's failed revolt.
• Retcon:
  • In her original backstories, Lux was a more openly-known prodigy in light magic, one who was recruited (read: borderline abducted) by the Demacian military from a young age. With Demacia becoming more defined as an Anti-Magical Faction, Lux's magic practice and her involvement in the Demacian military became much more clandestine.
  • A brief iteration of post-Continuity Reboot lore stated that when Lux became part of the Illuminators, she discovered that it was actually a front for a covert program to recruit mages in service of protecting Demacia's borders, and that she became involved in operations to infiltrate contested lands between Demacia and Noxus for them. This covert aspect was eventually removed; the Illuminators are now merely a charitable religious group, and no official institution is aware that she's a mage.
• Righteous Rabbit: Lux wields the Rabbit Zodiac Relic as the leader of the Porcelain Protectors.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: In her Star Guardian skin, Lux has hot pink hair and the Star Guardian page shows that she's one of the two downright nicest of the five (the other being Lulu).
• The Runaway: At the end of her comic, Lux fled the Great City of Demacia with a group of mages, seeking safety from the Mageseeker Order, but also not wanting anything to do with Sylas's revolution. Garen, after witnessing Lux's nature as a mage, had to let them go, and lied to Jarvan IV to cover for her. Lux is still considered missing as of Garen: First Shield, but she turns up in the Warriors 2020 cinematic to save Demacia from Sylas's army of Freljordian warriors. It turns out that her group set up camp in the abandoned city of Terbisia, as revealed in The Mageseeker.
• Runaway Fiancé: In the Lux comic Lux hides with Sylas in his prison cell when she's supposed to meet Jarvan IV to formalize their engagement. She later flees Demacia entirely when the anti-mage crackdown begins.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After Sylas' failed uprising and Jarvan IV's brutal crackdown on mages, Lux abandons Demacia with a ragtag crew of mages, seeking life elsewhere. Depending on the canonicity of the Warriors cinematic, she might have returned just in time to prevent a second invasion by Sylas.
• She's All Grown Up: Her Elementalist skin, with her voice sounding much older as well as appearing older than she normally does, is apparently what Lux will look like as an adult.
• Shipper on Deck: Lux appears to be amused (to a certain extent, at least) by Garen's interactions with Katarina.
  Lux: Kat and Garen sittin’ in a tree! And you better just be holding hands or I’m telling!
• Ship Tease:
  • She blushes after Sylas briefly holds her hand at the end of the second issue of her comic. In fact, most of the entire issue is constant Lux/Sylas Ship Tease. Of course, we all know it won't end well.
  • Despite the main lore implying that they won’t become a thing, Riot seems to be pushing for this with Ezreal and Lux again with Alternate Universe skins. The Battle Academia skins even have them going on dates.
• Skill Gate Characters: Lux is a consistently very popular champion among most of the playerbase, and for solid reasons in terms of gameplay: her kit is easy to pick up, eclectic with its burst damage and utility, and encourages a very safe playstyle catering to those who like low-investment, but big-reward champions. However, her popularity declines significantly in higher skill levels as she has very obvious windows of weakness to an astute enemy (namely her lack of mobility, slow-paced early game, and general slowness of her kit), and the fact she can do many things decently is offset by how other mages can do less, but better.
• Squishy Wizard: One of the quintessential burst mages in the game, Lux is quite vulnerable on her own, possessing no personal mobility and some of the lowest base health of all champions. But once her spells are loaded, she can just as quickly annihilate enemies. Her ultimate has a significantly lower cooldown than most mages, so while she'll have many moments where she has to wait for her cooldowns, she'll be firing lasers more often than expected. If she needs to defend herself, she has a shield and a snare, but that's not gonna save her if her team isn't there to help.
• Statuesque Stunner: Lux stands at a pretty tall 5'10" and nearly all of her skins have some element of fanservice to them.
• Stepford Smiler:
  • She's upbeat and loyal to her city-state, but is conflicted by their backwards treatment of magical ability.
    Morgana: "There is no darker mask than a bright smile."
  • Her previous lore before the mass Continuity Reboot was even worse — during 'League Judgment', a test to see if a candidate's worthy of being a champion for the League of Legends, it's revealed that Lux actually joins the League because she feels empty, being dragged into military service against her will, dragged away from home in tears, completely exhausted Lux's mentality and at this point, joining the League is all she had in life. This creates an eerie dissonance with her laugh that players tends to abuse, because it can be easily misinterpreted with Lux snapping and Laughing Mad.
• Teen Genius: She reached an expert level of skills in light magic at the age of sixteen, all by sneaking around contraband textbooks and practicing in secret from Demacian authorities.
• Toast of Tardiness: Her homeguard animation for her Battle Academia skins have her running while holding her books, and having a piece of toast in her mouth, as though she was running late for her classes.
• Token Wholesome: Noted by many for being the one of the most sensibly dressed females.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Issue 5 of her comic, Lux receives her iconic staff as thanks for leading a group of mages to safety. After Garen confronts the group, and Lux helps him come to terms with the fact that his sister is a mage, she uses her staff to blow open the tunnel that Sylas had since collapsed to cover his escape.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: She unleashed her powers for the first time defending herself and her horse from a pack of wolves.
  Riding home one fateful night, Lux and her horse were attacked by a ravenous sabrewulf pack. In a moment of fear and desperation, the young girl let loose a torrent of magical light from deep within her, routing the beasts but leaving her shivering in fear. Magic, the terror of Demacian myths, was as much a part of Lux as her Crownguard lineage.

  The Lady of Luminosity
• The Un-Reveal: Dark Cosmic Lux: "Born with darkness in my heart. Forced to wear a mask of light. Hungry hands peel away a false face to reveal... nothing."
• Unwitting Pawn: She inadvertently helped Sylas escape imprisonment, all because she sensed a kindred spirit in a similarly oppressed mage, even if it was one in chains. While Sylas does genuinely seem to value their friendship, that still didn't stop him from also using her magic ability as his explosive way out from the execution chamber.
• Variant Power Copying: Explicitly copied Morgana's Dark Binding and made her own spell out of it.
• Vocal Evolution: Despite not having any visual updates, she got an updated voiceover in 2017 (complete with the same voice actor 7 years since recording, no less), bringing her up to the game's current standards with champion-specific taunts, reacting to other players' emotes, and keeping some elements more in line with the post-mass-Retcon'd lore. This was an experiment by Riot who intended to update the VO's of old champs that didn't necessarily need a full visual update, and with the popularity of this update, they've since applied the same principle to later champions like Ashe, Lee Sin, Lucian, Sona, etc.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Her ultimate fires a massive flash of light, with a pretty massive range and dealing great damage.
• Weapon Twirling: The casting animations for Prismatic Barrier, Lucent Singularity and Final Spark all involve Lux's wand spinning around. She also twirls her wand around in one hand like a baton sometimes during her movement and idle animations.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In issue #5 of her comic; she calls out Garen for unflinchingly following Jarvan IV's orders to round up mages.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: With her Elementalist skin, her Dark form allows her to use a fusion of light/darkness abilities.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Light Binding is a potent spell that roots enemies in place for Lux and her allies to unleash further offense on.
• You're Not My Mother: Lux pulls this on her aunt Tianna when she tries to scold her for her use of magic.
  Tianna: If I were your mother...
  Lux: What a shame you aren't, aunt Tianna.

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