I feel like Lulu was healthier before her 'e' got changed...

Cloud273··3 votes·772 views

Before you downvote this please read everything. Lulu used to be an average support. She had decent damage and AP scaling but nothing spectacular. She was picked frequently in LCS, but as the game has evolved so have other popular supports (Zyra, Malzahar, Blitzcrank, Thresh, etc). Recently, she got a change to her 'e' (or her 'w', I can't remember) that grants attack speed. Twitch and Kog'maw now have a 55% win rate (both adc's that synergize well with attack speed), and I am 100% certain Lulu is responsible for this (the data on champion.gg also supports this). It's possible that maybe Kog and Twitch are a bit broken, but no one can deny that Lulu is at least partially responsible for their success. We had similar problems back when Nunu support was a thing (blood boil attack speed), but that power has now shifted over to Lulu. The attack speed alone isn't a problem, but when you combine it with her shield and her ult, you have a machine gun adc that becomes almost impossible to kill.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend

4 Comments

AbiwonKenabi3 votes

It's her W - Whimsy. And really this is not that big a deal compared to her former solo lane status. Extra attack speed is nice, but it won't alone protect a Kog'Maw or a Twitch. Sure she has great peel, but if a team can kill the person she buffed, she's out of luck. Her usefulness ends where the adc's competence begins.

Cloud2731 votes

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**It's her W - Whimsy. **And really this is not that big a deal compared to her former solo lane status. Extra attack speed is nice, but it won't alone protect a Kog'Maw or a Twitch. Sure she has great peel, but if a team can kill the person she buffed, she's out of luck. Her usefulness ends where the adc's competence begins.

Whatever. You know what I meant. Can't expect me to have the exact details of every ability in this game memorized. Semantics aside, the point remains the same.

LuIu3 votes

I don't really think the attackspeed-change to Lulu's W made such a huge impact, 90% of the time it's still better to use W on an enemy (adc/assassin preferred). Plus that change was a while ago, and she only became a metapick recently. In my opinion she's really good right now thanks to the OP-buffed Ardent Censer.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

The problem lies within her E.

Point and click free damage. Ideally, if Lulu ever does that, she should be punished for wasting a good shield and fished off. The problem is she isn't, and she is losing nothing by blindly maxing E.

Where did that came from? Q buffs. It got its mana cost reduced, slow duration flattened out (as in it's the same at all levels), and its cooldowns no longer scale in rank. There was no reason to max Q anymore, so people resorted to maxing E and pretend to be Janna.

Where did THAT came from? Bad players complaining that Lulu is "weak" because they pulled off a very braindead playstyle that's supposed to punish players for not thinking about mana management.

Her E enemy cast should deal as much as LB's W (dash) does, given on how much more it can do as a side effect (hello positioning and free stealth reveal). At least using W requires plenty of thought while using E doesn't even require a brain at all.

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