Lulu Nerfs

Retry·3/10/2016, 10:52:34 PM·5 votes·884 views

Hey I was wondering what everyone thought of the nerfs to Lulu on the pbe.

> Whimsy (W) AP ratio reduced to 5% per 100 AP from 10% per 100 AP. > Wild Growth (R) bonus health lowered to 200/350/500 from 300/450/600

I feel like both of these nerfs together are gonna chunk down lulu's win-rate especially in support. I dont think they're gonna remove lulu from being popular in the pro scene, but I feel as if zilean might just replace lulu now entirely in competitive.

Rest in piece speedy lulu :c. At least Lulu still has poly-morph?

6 Comments

Loli Lulu3/10/2016, 10:58:50 PM3 votes

I don't mind so much the Whimsy nerf, since I don't build all that much AP as Support anyways. The Wild Growth nerf is going to be huge though. 100HP at level 6 is a ginormous 33.3% nerf in value..

With Lulu already at the bottom of Support win-rates (46.5%, the lowest of all standard supports), these nerfs without compensation is going to push her over the edge of the cliff =[

PiVoRx3/10/2016, 11:24:38 PM2 votes

100% pick and ban in LCS thats why

Athenes Lulu3/11/2016, 1:29:02 AM1 votes

All she got was ult "healing" value nerfed, and AP ratios nerfed for her W.

W is too useful of a spell to be wasted on ally cast most of the time, Lulu support hardly ever builds scaling AP unless she is either an idiot or her team is just that ahead. Ult is used primarily to disrupt and knockup, not a healing device, so the nerf was justified.

-100 damage is a good deal of nerfed value, but that's more on a difference of being able to 1v1, not 2v2, which is more of a direct nerf on her solo laning, and not as much on supporting. IMO +300 HP in "heals" early game is pretty excessive...

So, I don't see the problem.

balbraaksel3/11/2016, 2:39:50 PM1 votes

Lulu is already unviable as support. Supports need to be strong early and have CC, Lulu has too high mana costs to do her job and is too squishy to autoattack as poke.

She was my favorite support, but now I just can't get her to do decently in lane. I try to compensate the nerfs a little by myself with teleport so mana isn't such a huge problem but still I can't perform well on her while I can easily dominate with other supports. And that while I have 500+ matches experience with her, wtf.