Aphelios vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Aphelios
based on 1,319 Aphelios vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Lulu
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Aphelios against Lulu matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lulu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Lulu
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Lulu?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when facing off against Lulu, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes a good counter for Lulu.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate compared to Lulu, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Aphelios into Luluas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Lulu matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Aphelios is an above average counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios to counter Lulu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically picks up much more CS relative to Lulu. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Lulu build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Lulu than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Lulu with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Lulu as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Lulu counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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