Why is Lulu weak right now?
Isn’t her purpose to stop hard engages with all the peel she can provide? What makes her weak right now compared to Janna, Nami, and Soraka?
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Isn’t her purpose to stop hard engages with all the peel she can provide? What makes her weak right now compared to Janna, Nami, and Soraka?
The three you listed are also very weak right now. They're kept weak because Riot hates supports who actually support.
Lulu´s job is not to stop engages, it´s to stop assassins and divers trying to pick her carry out however if a tank like say Leona engages on her instead and stuns her for 5 seconds while the enemy AD kills her she really cant do much.
A tank does not give a fuck if the enemy ADC (who is not vayne) is targeting them if their own ADC is safe and sound and happily doing their job in the meanwhile so the only one hard losing in this situation is Lulu.
Another type she struggles with is the one who just pokes her from way outside her range, lot of "support" mages in particular.
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And which support class is the most popular right now? Supports who can do hard engages......and Senna who just pokes from 3 miles out.
I'm not sure about why her winrate is so low since enchanter usually tend to have high winrate because they're pretty forgiving but i think the reason for why she's weaker than soraka,janna and nami it's because of her laning face.
Janna trading pattern come from using Q for CC and Auto + W + Comet which deal a lot of poke (and also she can shield back the enemy poke).
Soraka silence it's basically free damage because it's an instant long range ability and his Q heal her back giving movespeed in return.
Nami can either Q for CC the enemy and/or walk toward them using W on them and heal back.
Both of this 3 champ have realiable dmg and safety during lane.
The classic lulu trading pattern is to walk toward them and using E+Q+AA which deal way more damage than both of the 3 champ but it will cost her shield (she can't defend herself after doing so) and need to use her W to actually avoid most of skillshot unlike the other 3 which have a ms buff on passive or as secoundary effect (nami passive,soraka Q, Janna W passive which she consume after using W but she has still the shield).
Lulu is way better at peeling from assassin but the meta even if is a "High burst dmg meta", it actually revolve around mage or adc which lulu hardly can shut down because she can't reach them for using W on them and her ult can't use that well the slow because it has no effect against ranged champ.
Also the adc that are picked atm aren't that good with lulu (with the only exception of 
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Lulu is really good with marksmen who use atk speed rather than raw burst but some of them usually use low AA or have basically no atk speed (
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janna can stop ppl from getting in more easily, and push them away, nami can heal poke, provide damage and someone like leona who have a predicatable landing will get hit by Q, soraka have to play more safe but she does have her instant damage silence and her Q i feel that lulu have the strengh of shutting down one diver really hard with polymorph plus the ult plus the shield, but after does she really have the tools to stop more than one diver? protect more than one person? provide engage? when janna ults, she is healing herself, and all alies around her while push every enemy away, when you ult someone as lulu these days they just switch targets and kill someone else, could be an issue of less "one hyper carry" metas, no kog maw no tristana, little vayne and jinx, it is all about early power
Isn’t her purpose to stop hard engages with all the peel she can provide? What makes her weak right now compared to Janna, Nami, and Soraka?
Because she's squishy herself and gets 2 shot.
Fun fact, most mages/assassins who have a brain will usually get fed off a squishy support instead of trying to target the ADC. That's why many enchanters are out of meta. There's too much damage in the game and ADC's are doing tons of damage early without much items. So it's a game of who catches who first.
That's why I pick Zilean into engage supports. Play safe till 6, poke them out, my ult ensures that whoever they blow their burst on is wasted and then we turn the fight around if you know to play safely till 6.
Also ban Ezreal because his poke is disgusting and Manamune is a broken item.
I wouldn't care about winrates, I main Ryze and Sylas two extremely low winrate champions and I still pop off almost every game. Still though, please don't pick enchanter supports, you are 100% guarantee'd to tilt your adc into oblivion. 90% of the time my bot lane hard ints its because it's an enchanter vs engage lane.
because she is a hyper carry support if your adc is garbage she can't do much if your adc is good you auto win the game
The day I'll start playing lulu again is the day pix turns into a onhit effect again . You want to see busted revert this then get rage blade nashors and boom you fck anyone's day up. Fed yi jumps on you boom ult poli him and he is dead
Just feels like she gets blown up too easily even with her ult and her w up. Because when I play Lulu, I save the ult for my adc and w the enemy. I NEVER USE IT ON MYSELF because I am not the carry.
Soraka has a silence to keep people at bay, sona can stun them with her ult and has high damage poke to bring them down (at a very long range mind you.) Janna has high mobility and a tornado to keep people off of her.
But Lulu?
Her range is too short! I think if you give her a longer range it could potentially help protect her. 
Because she's been nerfed to be worse than other enchanters. She's decent right now but she's just not as good as Raka, Janna, Nami, etc