Akali vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Akali
based on 3,451 Akali vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Lulu
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several valuable Akali vs. Lulu matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Lulu. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Lulu
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Who is Better, Akali or Lulu?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when playing against Lulu, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter to Lulu.
While Akali does have a higher winrate than Lulu, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Akali into Luluas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Lulu matchups, Akali is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akali is a good counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali in order to counter Lulu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average gets much more CS compared to Lulu. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akali versus Lulu build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Lulu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Lulu with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Lulu as Akali, Akali players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akali vs Lulu LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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