Aphelios vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Aphelios
based on 1,013 Aphelios vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Lulu
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Aphelios against Lulu matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lulu. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lulu. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Lulu
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when taking on Lulu, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a great counter to Lulu.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate than Lulu, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Aphelios into Luluas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios also has only a small 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Lulu matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Aphelios is a great counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Lulu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often accumulates much more CS relative to Lulu. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Lulu build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Lulu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 53.2% when countering Lulu with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Lulu as Aphelios, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Aphelios vs Lulu battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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