Lulu vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Lulu
based on 811 Lulu vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Gangplank
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.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Lulu vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Lulu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Lulu versus Gangplank matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lulu normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Gangplank. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Lulu or Gangplank?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lulu usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gangplank, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Lulu makes an ok counter for Gangplank.
While Lulu does have a lower winrate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Lulu also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Lulu into Gangplank.
Additionally, Lulu also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Gangplank matchups, Gangplank is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lulu is a somewhat poor counter to Gangplank. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lulu against Gangplank.
Other Champion Matchups Against Lulu
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lulu in order to counter Gangplank during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Lulu versus Gangplank build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Lulu bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Gangplank than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lulu had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Gangplank 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 rune sets players chose for Lulu vs Gangplank clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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