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Tips & Tricks
- Feel free to play toward Zilean if you hit him on 8, but 2 star Lissandra is much better than Zilean 1 so keep that in mind. If you are low HP, play for Lissandra. If you are high HP, you can play with Zilean 1 and push to level 9 easier
- Generally try to position so that units wrap around Garen to ensure Lux hits the maximum number of units
- Try to build 3 real tank items on Garen (instead of utility tank items like Sunfire or Ionic Spark) as you want him to have the highest effective HP possible. This works well with Gunblade on Lux. Short-term you might have to play utility items on Garen or Lux before you can eventually move them.
Strong Conditions
+2 Tier Conditions B → S
+1 Tier Conditions B → A
Openers
Demacia
Demacia
Current
Best-in-Slot
Alt Build 1
Alt Build 2
Alt Build 3
Economy Strategy
- Level to 4 if you have upgrades and a good item to place on one of those upgrades.
- Level to 5, unless on 3 loss streak.
- Level to 6 if on 4+ win streak (scout to see if necessary in high elo) or can stay above 40g.
- Level to 6, unless you would go below 30g. If you have to stay level 5 due to low gold (rare), then level to 6 on 3-5.
- Level to 7 if you can stay above 30g, otherwise stay level 6.
- Level to 7.
- Level to 8. Roll for desired comp until stable. “Stable” changes depending on rank, items, augments, composition, and patch. Melee carries and tanks get the biggest spike for 2-stars. Usually stable involves 2-star tank or carry and some other supporting 2-stars. Try not to roll below 10g.
- If you are weak (e.g., have no 2-star 4-costs), consider rolling again to 10g here. If you are stable, save gold to go 9.
- If you are low HP and haven’t 2-starred your carry and tank, roll to 0g. If you have medium to high HP with an upgraded + itemized 4-cost unit and some other upgrades, save gold to go 9.
- If high HP, consider waiting until 5-5 to go level 9. If medium HP, consider going level 9 if you can roll 20g or wait until 5-5. If low HP and can afford to go 9, do so even if you have almost no gold to roll on 9. If you can’t afford to go 9 this game, roll every turn for upgrades.
- Level to 9 if possible. From this point onward, look to level to 9. Acknowledge games where level 9 is not possible and roll every turn on 8 to preserve placements.
- For max cap games, you can either roll on 9 or level to 10. If you are itemizing a 5-cost carry and it is 1-starred, roll on 9. If you have all your main itemized units upgraded, level to 10.




Demacia is far too strong now. I just lost to both players spamming this comp in the top 4
I feel a very underrated item build that I find myself going on Lux a lot of the time, is JG, Morellos, Void, with Void and Morellos she casts just enough and the utility it brings out is unmatched.
I’ve seen posts about the chall player who always went for the level 8 cap of 3 starring a 4 cost rather than pushing 9. Is it actually viable? I’ve played this comp a lot but stuck on whether it’s worth to stay on 8 even if I’m uncontested/have extra copies of lux/garen/liss
if you have AD items to slam on vayne she’s far superior to xin. Also early Zilean can really carry to keep tempo with rolling and go 9/10
Why Gunblade over Nashor?
Good top 4 line, played from bad opener / loss streak. stayed on 8 playing for placements