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When should I go back to base?

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You are getting ganked! What now?

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Winning

If you want to play Lux effectively, you should have a good knowledge about her laning phase.You need to know that her laning is very reliant on the matchup. There are matchups you will win easily by outfarming and killing your opponent and there are matchups you will have to ride out and wait for your jungler to gank. This fact should be considered in terms of item build and choice of summoner spells. In addition to that, you should know that I am writing about my personal playstyle.As I told you before, your first skill to max and Lux' primary farming tool is. This skill is very useful in terms of harrassing the enemy and controlling minion waves. But keep in mind that Lucent Singularity's mana costs increase to the absurd amount of 130 mana at rank 5. Always keep your mana household in mind! Due to its large AoE radius, Lucent Singularity is a great tool for waveclear. You can hit entire minions waves with just one ability! You should keep in mind that this might lead to a push. And pushing is not always a good choice. Lux lacks any source of mobility and is therefore very vulnerable to ganks. Push your lane out if you want to go back to base or to prepare a roam. You should also know thataffects minions with your passive. This is very useful in terms of last-hitting. Lucent Singularity is also great if you want to prevent the enemy laner from last-hitting your minions or gaining experience (zoning). Just throw it next to him or in front of your minions and he will have to decide between last-hitting and getting harrassed. Do not useto farm minions! Its long cooldown could prevail your opponent / the enemy jungler to engage on you. Wasting this Spell makes you extremely vulnerable!There are two possibilities depending on whether the matchup is AP vs. AP or AP vs. AD.: try to stay in lane until you have around 1300 gold. Port back and purchase(900g) and pots. If you have more gold, buy a control ward and/or boots.: there are two options. You can try to stay in lane until you have around 1200 but at least 1100 gold. Recall and purchase(1100g). Buy boots, pots and a control ward, depending on your gold. Finishduring later recalls. Your second option is to try to stay in lane until you have at least 900g. Recall and purchaseand, if possible, potions and boots.Warding wins games (and lanes!). That rule is one of the basic principles of this game. Lux' mentioned lack of mobility makes it even more important. A small overview on warding should provide you with all the necessary information.: "early alert"-wards: useful control ward-spots: common ward-spots: "Faker-ward" (vision on river + jungle): blue buff (try to steal it withAs you already know how Lux' kit is working and how to chain her abilities, there is not that much to explain on how you poke down and kill your opponent. It is all about utilising your very long range and good mana-managing. Lux has a relatively high auto-attack range (550), therefore it can be very useful (in the early game) to attack your opponent with auto-attacks, even if he does not have thedebuff. Avoid auto-attacking ranged midlaners with higher range (e.g.) or auto-attack steroids (e.g.'s). If you want to poke your opponent, try to throw(your primary harassing tool) behind him. As he tries to dodge the ability, he will instinctively take one step back and walk directly into it. Believe me, this trick works almost every time! If it is possible for you, that means you are not low on health, you would not get into your opponents tower range or you would not miss a lot of minions, try to triggerby auto-attacking him. This will deal a nice amount of damage, especially on early levels. You can force your opponent to use all of his health potions if you manage to engage him on level 2. Catch him with, throw out, trigger, detonateand triggeragain. This should bring the average midlaner to ~25 % of his maximum health. If possible, try to hit him with even more auto-attacks afterwards. You should use the time between level 3 and level 6 to farm and for small trades (). This will help you to manage your mana consumption. If you get Blue Buff spamand force your opponent to backport. If you reach level 6, you are able to perform a chain of abilities that will likely kill the enemy midlaner. You have to options: first of all, you could poke him down with, until he is very low on health. Try to finish him off withwhile he is trying to get back to his tower. Secondly, you could try to perform your standard Lux combo. Catch him with, throw out, cast, detonateand, if necessary, finish him off with a last auto-attack that will triggerThere are lot of possibilities to get ganked on midlane, but there are a lot of possibilities to escape ganks, too. The picture below should help you to react to ganks. Try to escape into the opposite direction of the gank but prioritise to get to your tower. Once you have gained some experience as a midlaner, you will get a feeling for ganks and whether you should useto escape or not.If you keep in mind how to handle Lux' kit, her strengths and weaknesses, you will be able to get through a good laning phase. Winning your lane is a good combination of farming, harassing and killing. And after reading this guide, you will hopefully be able to connect all three. But you should know that winning a lane is worth nothing if it caused other lanes to lose. It is not worth it to get an advantage of 20 CS or your opponents' tower if he roamed bot/top three times, killed five of your teammates and helped his team to get dragon or rift herald. Be careful while following roaming enemies and always tell your teammates if they have to expect a gank.