Star Guardian Lux

First time I saw Star Guardian Lux load in, season 5, I thought Riot had lost their minds putting a magical girl anime skin into League. Played against it in a Diamond promo game. Got absolutely destroyed by a Lux one-trick running it. Couldnt even be mad because every ability looked that clean. That was May 2015 and I still remember the pink lazor beam crossing my screen at like 1 AM on a Tuesday.

How Star Guardian Lux actually plays

For an Epic tier skin at 1350 RP, this one punches above its weight. The VFX overhaul is the headline. Every ability gets the full Star Guardian treatment: pinks, golds, sparkles, star particles. Her Q binding sends out this twisting star projectile that reads way better than base Lux’s orb. Honestly not gonna lie, it’s one of those skins where the Q hitbox almost feels different because the visual is so distinct.

W shield pops with a starburst effect. Clean. E lucent singularity drops this pink zone that’s satisfying to detonate. The ult is where it really shines though. Full screen laser goes from that pale white beam to a concentrated pink-gold burst of starlight energy. Been running this in Diamond for years and the ult never gets old visually. Something about the particle density just hits right.

Recall animation is new too. Lux does this whole magical girl transformation sequence with her staff, stars swirling around her. It’s over the top in the best way. Not sure if it’s just me but I think this recall animation set the standard for what Riot did with the entire Star Guardian line going forward. The skin also changes her auto attack particles to these little star projectiles which matters more than you’d think when you’re trying to cs in lane.

Voice lines stay base, no new VO. Standard for 1350 RP skins from that era. The base Carrie Keranen performance holds up fine with the skin’s aesthetic though.

The skin that launched a skinline

Star Guardian Lux dropped May 17, 2015. This is important context. This skin basically created the entire Star Guardian universe. Before this, there was no Star Guardian Season 1, no massive multi-champion skin events, none of that. Lux was patient zero.

Jean ‘Curing’ Go nailed the splash. The composition with Lux floating in that starfield, staff glowing, cape flowing – it reads like an actual anime key visual. (Random aside: this splash was my desktop wallpaper for like three months straight back in 2015.) The color palette established everything the Star Guardian line would become.

No chromas on this one. Zero. Which makes sense given the era. Riot wasn’t doing chromas heavily in 2015, and honestly the base pink-gold color scheme is so iconic at this point that chromas might actually hurt it. The Star Guardian Season 1 line started here and grew into one of Riot’s biggest thematic universes. Lux got subsequent Star Guardian content too but this original skin holds a special place.

Available any time. Permanent shop. 1350 RP and it’s been sitting there for over a decade now.

Where it stands against other Lux skins

Real talk though. Lux has maybe the deepest skin catalog in the game. Elementalist exists. Dark Cosmic exists. Battle Academia, Porcelain, Space Groove – the list goes on. So where does Star Guardian land?

For 1350 RP I think it’s still top three Lux skins. Maybe controversial take. Elementalist is technically superior in every way but costs 3250 RP and honestly I’ve seen Lux mains who prefer Star Guardian’s simplicity. There’s something about not having to toggle through ten forms mid-teamfight. You lock in Star Guardian and every ability just works visually from minute one.

Played maybe 150 games on this skin across multiple seasons. The VFX age well because the star particle theme is timeless. Some 2015 skins look dated now but the magical girl aesthetic translates clean into modern League. My Lux one-trick friend still swears by this over everything except Elementalist, and even then she switches back to Star Guardian for ranked because “the Q reads better” – her words not mine.

Kinda feels like this skin gets overlooked now because Lux has so many options. But for poke mages in the mid lane or support Lux players who want their abilities to pop in a teamfight, the pink VFX cut through visual clutter better than most alternatives. The E zone especially stands out against the Rift’s green-brown palette when you’re trying to zone the backline or set up picks around dragon pit.

Should you buy it?

Verdict time. Star Guardian Lux at 1350 RP is one of those skins thats just quietly excellent. Not flashy in the way Elementalist is, not edgy like Dark Cosmic. It’s the clean, reliable Lux skin. Best executed magical girl fantasy in the game when it launched and it still holds up season after season.

Skip it if you already own Elementalist and never play Lux support. But if you main Lux or even have her in rotation for mid lane poke comps, 1350 RP feels fair for what you get. The VFX package alone carries. Worth it for mains, solid pickup for anyone who plays her occasionally. I keep coming back to this skin even with newer options in the shop and that says something about how well it was designed from the start.