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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Lulu versus Ryze counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Lulu typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lulu usually loses when taking on Ryze, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Lulu makes a poor counter for Ryze.
While Lulu does have a much lower winrate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Lulu also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lulu into Ryze.
Moreover, Lulu has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lulu is a garbage counter to Ryze. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lulu against Ryze.
If you would like to truly master Lulu in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase 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 compared to Ryze. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Lulu versus Ryze build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Lulu used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lulu had an average win rate of 45.0% when playing against Ryze with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Ryze as Lulu, Lulu players 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 runes we have analyed for Lulu vs Ryze fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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