Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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 show some valuable Heimerdinger vs. Lulu counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Heimerdinger typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lulu. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when trying to fight Lulu, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes a great counter for Lulu.
While Heimerdinger does have a much higher win rate than Lulu, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Heimerdinger into Luluas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Lulu matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a great counter to Lulu. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Lulu.
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger to counter Lulu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often accumulates much more CS as Lulu. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Lulu build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Lulu than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 54.0% when countering Lulu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lulu as Heimerdinger, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Lulu clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.0% win rate overall.
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