Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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 stats shown on this page clarify several important Naafiri against Lulu matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Lulu. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Lulu. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when taking on Lulu, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a good counter for Lulu.
While Naafiri does have a higher win rate than Lulu, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Lulu.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Lulu matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Naafiri is a decent counter for Lulu. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Lulu.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri most often accumulates much more CS as Lulu. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Lulu build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting Lulu than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Lulu with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Lulu as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Naafiri vs Lulu counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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