Leona vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Leona
based on 1,598 Leona vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Lulu
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
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.
Leona vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Leona versus Lulu counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lulu..
Leona often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lulu. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Lulu
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Who is Better, Leona or Lulu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Lulu, with a 56.6% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Lulu.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate than Lulu, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Lulu.
Moreover, Leona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Lulu matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Lulu. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Lulu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often racks up more CS as Lulu. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Leona versus Lulu build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Lulu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 56.6% when playing against Lulu with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Lulu as Leona, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Leona vs Lulu counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 56.6% winrate overall.
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