Except it doesn't? He's just saying you need to have better positioning. Sure, if everyone is Flash diving you then you make the necessary adjustments with Zhonya's to bait but that's an unrealistic scenario. You shouldn't be dived that hard unless you have absolutely nothing remotely close to a front line. And, in that case, they don't even really have to dive you then, just walk by them.
uh, this is silver solo queue bro, people are idiots and just run towards their deaths trying to "rush" their carries while leaving you unprotected all the time. you don't have a frontline because people are idiots and don't know the meaning of peel or have even the most basic teamfighting skills. I'm not saying ELO HELL FUCK IT but the situation he was presenting didn't apply to me in the slightest.
I'm not saying I'm great at positioning, but I'm human, on silver for a reason, and silver teammates are random and just do whatever. sometimes they're really cool but more often than not it's you versus the world, which is why I like having a bit of resistances (and got very sad when GA got nerfed) and a golden immortality button.
for the bit I've tried seraph is a really good alternative since it's a guaranteed 300ish shield that leaves you free to move.
At the end of the day, Zhonya's is a bad damage item. This isn't a surprise, you pay 3410 Gold for 2610g worth of AP. Any item geared more towards damage is more cost efficient than it for AP. It's not a bad item by any means, just not something you'd get offensively.
I buy it as a defensive/offensive item ofc since you know how much I love its active. it's a fourth item unless I'm up against an ad assassin or something.
I hate responses like this about advice.
w/e bro I said like ten times already that for me chalice is more than enough mana and that I never run out during or after teamfights yet people keep singing the same tune. I get it, my experience is different from yours, I appreciate the effort but it's gotten tiresome now
It's worth noting that it's 130 AP vs 120 AP with a 700g difference in cost in favor of the 130 AP. That's the real big thing to take note of.
yeah, it's now a matter of deciding if the active's worth that difference on a match to match basis.
I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just pointing out something a lot of players seem to forget. You sometimes have to adapt to the game you're in and you can't go by one single build or single mind set of playing with lux because she is amazingly flexible.
Your positioning should change game by game. Sometimes you need to stand way back to avoid cc, sometimes you have to stand at the front line to get more binding angles, sometimes you stand by the adc to peel for them, sometimes you stand by the adc to bait the enemies to dive deeper in and get cced, and sometimes you need to stand over walls and cast from there so you never get hit by a fed melee champ.
It's hard to break out from what you usually do and it'll screw you up sometimes but the more you get use to it, the better you'll be.
I agree, but I also think that not losing hp in teamfights is unrealistic, which is what annoyed me about your post. it's like I'm telling you I like to buy this item because positioning is not always easy and your answer is "you need better positioning".
it's also not giving me the benefit of the doubt of knowing a bit what I'm talking about like I've just picked up the game yesterday or something.
Cool thanks. One last thing, do u bother going for liandrys? Right now I'm going tear -> boots/rab -> morello -> guise -> void staff
haunting guise after deathcap and morellos is too late, your best bet is to rush it before deathcap or don't bother at all. I mean it won't hurt but you'll waste it's magic hour. personally I'm not a huge fan of it on lux, I sometimes buy void staff before deathcap if I feel like it, but it's still a good idea I imagine.
as for liandrys, I like erasing people on one combo so it's not often on my rotation but it's a good item if you're on a poke comp or the enemy team is stacking health. it's not bad, but it's not the way I'd normally play lux and I like doing a defensive item last (though I'm more and more moving away from this since it barely seems to change anything).