Katarina vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Katarina
based on 2,089 Katarina vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Lulu
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Lulu
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.
Katarina vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several valuable Katarina against Lulu counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lulu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lulu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Lulu
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Who is Better, Katarina or Lulu?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Lulu, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Lulu.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Lulu, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Luluas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Lulu matchups, Lulu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Lulu. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average accumulates much more CS as Lulu. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Lulu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Lulu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Lulu with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Lulu as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Lulu matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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