Lulu vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Lulu
based on 682 Lulu vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Karthus
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
Advice to Win Against Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Lulu vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Lulu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Lulu against Karthus matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karthus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karthus. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Lulu typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Karthus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Karthus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Lulu or Karthus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lulu usually loses when facing off against Karthus, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Lulu makes a bad counter to Karthus.
While Lulu does have a lower win rate than Karthus, when on opposite teams, Lulu also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lulu into Karthus.
Additionally, Lulu has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karthus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Karthus matchups, Karthus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lulu is a somewhat poor counter to Karthus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Karthus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Lulu
Additional Information for Lulu Players
How We Calculated Our Lulu vs Karthus Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lulu to counter Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu typically picks up a lot less CS as Karthus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Lulu versus Karthus build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Lulu incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Karthus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lulu had an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Karthus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Karthus as Lulu, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Lulu vs Karthus counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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