Xerath vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Xerath
based on 2,107 Xerath vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Lulu
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Xerath versus Lulu counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lulu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Xerath typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lulu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Lulu
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Who is Better, Xerath or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when trying to fight Lulu, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a good counter to Lulu.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate compared to Lulu, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Luluas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Lulu matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter to Lulu. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Lulu.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xerath
Additional Information for Xerath Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xerath 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath often accumulates much more CS compared to Lulu. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Xerath versus Lulu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Lulu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Lulu with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Lulu as Xerath, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Xerath vs Lulu fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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