When will Lulu get a compensation buff?

Witch of Babylon·Jul 9, 2018·4 votes·1,776 views

Lulu's winrate is hovering around a 48% winrate due to the shield duration nerf and the enchanter items nerfs. I can understand that the shield creep was kind of overbearing, but why does Lulu have to stay under 50% winrate when every other enchanter has a +50% winrate (aside from ). If you don't want Lulu to shield, you can at least buff her somewhere else to keep it fair.

And before you say Lulu should stay in the trash where she belongs, and get to stay fairly good.

7 Comments

Who Fed RuJul 9, 20183 votes

why should 48% be necessarily bad?

not every enchanter has to be broken.

BernJul 9, 20183 votes

The more disturbing statistic for Lulu is how low her support winrate is on players who are good at Lulu. By lolalytics's measurements, it's about 52.9%, which is only better than Karma, Shen, Voli, Nautilus, and Ornn. MF support does better on this metric. (Meanwhile, Janna actually still leads this metric even post-nerf. Janna btw)

Lotus BloomJul 9, 20182 votes

Sadly, as the game is being largely balanced around competitive play, Lulu will likely not get any buffs that would bring her up. If you notice most champions that end up highly effective in competitive play environments have been nerfed to being 48%, or even lower.

Examples include: Ornn Ryze Azir Galio Sejuani Ezreal Karma

2Charmnot2CharmJul 9, 20182 votes

Lulu is perfectly fine, try rushing this item 3174 before getting other support items.

BLIGHTBRINGERJul 9, 20181 votes

So why does Lulu need a special treatment Buff? I would say 48% - 50% Winrate is a balanced. There as some champions who are below 46% Winrate currently who need buffs more than Lulu (those champions are: Karma, Varus, Ornn).

Those 3 champions are currently considered to be the worst as of now, winrate-wise.

Killer of Night9Jul 9, 20181 votes

I think the issue is that you need to use ALL of your spell for be sure that you adc won't die from ONE of enemy assassin (basically if they are 2, your adc is probably going to die anyway). If i'm playing lulu, for saving my adc from the enemy assassin i have to be sure to make the W on the enemy (so i can't buff my ally stat which in a teamfight it's wasted) and then i have to be sure to well timing my shield and using my Ult for peeling the adc before the assasin is jumped into him (talon rengar case) or after he's into him (zed). Actually it required a lot of concentration which is hard to keep for 20-40 min of game (if it will last 40 min). Also sometime all the lulu spell rotation isn't enought and the actual support item list doesn't provide a real anti burst option anymore if you are a enchanter. item 3190 Is weak after the nerf and has long cd + it scale with bonus hp and as an enchanter it won't be a good item. item 3107 this item is still good after the nerf but it's delayed so unless you are predicting the enemy (more concentration) you will never be able to save your adc. item 3222 this item is just a NO! It's too situational for be a good item for peeling. item 3174 this item actually is the only one Worth for peeling atm but it has a weak side. It worked only after a shield (or heal). As lulu i have to instant use E so i'm not able to heal the adc after the initial burst so it's not a good option. Adding a shield item with a low cd (but still reasonable) will make enchanter more powerful at protecting in this damage meta but the won't be dominating since it should have a good cd (60-40 s) with 1,5/2,5 s of duration (like the actual shield). To make sure that this item wouldn't be dominating into a funneling meta it should scale with the owner lv and it would scale with %mana reg.

SylaelqueAug 17, 20191 votes

Now, everybody picking battlemages as support. Lulu always losing lane against those battlemages because she has very short cast range compare to new meta supports.