Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Ahri versus Lulu matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Ahri often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Lulu. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Lulu, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Lulu.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate than Lulu, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Lulu.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Lulu matchups, Lulu is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter for Lulu. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Lulu.
To truly master Ahri to counter Lulu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often racks up much more CS as Lulu. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Lulu build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Lulu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Lulu with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Lulu as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ahri vs Lulu counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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