Lulu Build Guide : Lulu - Solo Top Reference :: League of Legends Strategy Builds

Introduction

DISCLAIMER

If you do not think Lulu should be played as a solo top then do not leave a comment, do not vote and continue on to a support Lulu guide as this is not a guide for you and your opinion will not be valued with me or anyone else that has an interest in playing Lulu as a solo top. You can find an awesome support Lulu guide here. No hard feelings it is simply the only fair option.

Hello. I have been playing Lulu for quite a while. She saw many uses early but has now been pushed into the support role. While her kit is good to support, it is also good as a solo top and a jungler. I prefer Lulu as a top because she is able to deny an enemy champion farm much like and while she can play very similar, she is also very, very different. I do not recommend using Lulu Top in solo queue. While she is strong (strong enough to be used the pros in tournaments!) she needs to be extremely well coordinated against the enemy in a team fight.

Lulu, like all on-hit based champions, is stronger than ever with the latest buffs to and opening up an entire new item slot to be used. She will still be a relatively squishy champion due to her core playstyle but that is certainly not holding her back from achieving great things.

When to play Lulu Top?

I'm sure you're thinking, "Man as a solo top? I mean sure she MIGHT be able to win her lane but she can't teamfight like a solo top." and you RIGHT! And that's why I LOVE HER!

Below are a few situations you should be considering when you pick top! While she can potentially beat just about every champion in the game 1v1 in the early stages that isn't the only reason to pick her.

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Good Pick

why hasn't tales of xillia been released in the us?

Bad Pick

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Their top lane will get out of hand with farm
You need to survive multiple turret dives
Your team needs sustain damage
Your team needs CC
Your team needs magic damage
Your team needs range
Your jungler's ganks are weak
Their jungler and top have incredible ganks
Someone doubts Solo Top Lulu

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Your team needs an offtank/full tank
Your team needs an assassin
Your team needs physical damage
Your team needs AoE damage
Your team has bad teamwork

Once you've decided on whether or not to play Lulu as a top we can get down to the nitty gritty of the numbers on how to optimize our adorable little death machine.

Masteries

I take 9-21-0 on solo top Lulu. The amount of damage and cc being thrown around in the top lane these days and from AD based junglers is annoying at best. 21 points in defense are going to make you quite a bit tankier than you might first imagine allowing you to take the huge amount of jungle pressure you will most likely experience.

A snapshot of my mastery tree:

Offense

Tier One

is taken for increase overall DPS. Flat damage boost to your killing potential while is taken to help with last hitting.

Ignore because we only need to put 9 points into the tree to get increased attack damage. seems worth it at first but the damage increase early game is less than one whereas more AD masteries will help with pushing towers and last hits.

Tier Two

is a great increase of AD scaling for Lulu and gives you 2 extra AD at lvl 4! Woo! The best use of your points... sadly.

Anything with a damage boost of < 3% is straight garbage. You would have to deal 60,000 damage with the 1% dmg boost to kill a bruiser at level 1. Ignore them, ie . isn't good for Lulu because she relies on her auto attacks while gives you good sustain but doesn't really help you when you're playing defensive or when the enemy bruiser decides to slam his face into the keyboard with their jungler.

Tier 3

gives +4 AD. Enough said if you've been reading thru the mastery choices so far.

Again, and have been explained. No % damage and AP for our Lulu during early game. Putting one point into seems wasteful. It also doesn't help with CS or with whittling down the enemy.

Defense

Tier 1

is a great lane tool to keep you in lane longer. For two points it is one of the very best a mastery can offer. is great to keep you in lane longer as well. Abuse these two mastery points.

isn't taken because you aren't a jungler. is ALRIGHT at best, but not optimal. at 100 armor you gain 5 armor for free... that's nothing.

Tier 2

is an added point to ... get it. makes up for Lulu's low base HP. This is a requirement and in the past was taken by almost every champion for bonus survivability and it hasn't changed.

No no . Moving on.

Tier 3

is taken to boost our low health. 3% isn't much but when you survive one tick of ignite away you can thank this mastery. is armor. You need all the armor.

looks good in theory, but really the time frame for Lulu's slow is so small it's almost not even a factor. The inital slow is so much that you can walk away from theme anyway further decreasing it's effective damage mitigation. is top notch. Work your way into getting this if you're fighting someone like or .[/left]

Tier 4

is a garbage talent it's only 1%... not even close. Lose 300 health now ≥ for ~ 2 minutes. Very worth it. : suck it Yasuopo. Great for stopping ADC damage as well.

could be good. Lulu is such a huge threat when played well in teamfights that this isn't really as much of a factor with her huge range and normally defensive play style. is only magic damage aoe mitigation. I'm skeptical at best.

Tier Five

doesn't count for Lulu's ult but it does count for BoRK and other lifesteal to make it worth it. Grab it to hold onto that last breath when SOME people might ignore you... fools. is a free +3 armor in lane an 15 armor in a teamfight. This is amazing.

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Tier 6

It's at the bottom for a reason. Lulu excels at sustain fighting, not burst fighting. Keeping close to 100% uptime is optimal and 15% crowd control reduction is very helpful. It is more obvious during a gank. Decreasing time cc'd while trying to run away by 15% is helpful to say the least.

Runes

The new season has ushered in many highly mobile bruisers that make laning with Lulu a much more even match, with special mention to any mana-less high mobility champion. I'm leaning to damage and defense more than I ever have in the past.

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Damage to trade directly with the enemy when forced to early game and to make last hitting easier, especially under tower. MS is neigh useless against the insane mobility of popular bruisers with lifesteal barely noticable.

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Damage to trade and last hit. Same above. You could run AS marks if you hard counter the enemy, ie Vayne/Singed for more early game if you're feeling gutsy for first blood.

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has 9 base armor. These runes are an absolute MUST HAVE for solo top.

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I feel that the additional MR is the best stat to have in this department. Most top lanes do not deal high magic damage and as such you do not need to run flat MR marks. We instead build for the late game.

Alternate Quint Choices

You could run these quints to boost your attack speed early on. More attack speed equals more pix procs and more on-hit procs. These runes can give you a big edge early on but I do not think that it outweighs the survivability that health brings seeing as does not have much health and will not be using lifesteal to regen her health. Even if you did run a lot of lifesteal it would not proc off of a lot of your damage since most of it is magic. It should also be noted that spell vamp does NOT proc off of on-hit effects.

These are fun to play with. They help you counter high mobility champions that also might run them. People like and will cry as rocketship is flying around top lane getting all the CS and all the harass shots. These quints are a gamble because late in the game you aren't going to be as mobile and will have to choose between CCing someone for 3 seconds or giving yourself a speed boost to position/run away

These quints will make very tanky against tops that deal all physical damage. If you were say up against and grab these runes, and 5 s you would soak in xp, but probably not as much gold from tower last hitting.

Alternate Marks

These marks will increase your overall dps. AS on Lulu is the highest damage stat you're going to find early game. However, counting on Pix to last hit is not such a great idea. You will also lose a lot of theoretical dps if Pix is not shooting the enemy champion in trades.

greater mark of hybrid penetration

These are an interesting choice for our little . This will give you a mixture of early game harass and late game damage. Penetrating both defense stats will increase all types of your damage. I will run the numbers and post back later but I'm pretty sure that will yield a higher DPS at mid to late game.

Alternate Seals

While I would love to try different seals I did not plan on writing about things I haven't already done. I am scared to not run my armor seals. is very very very squishy. If you would like to try to run different seals please do so and post in the comments on how they worked for you. I would HIGHLY recommend running armor seals against ANY top that does physical damage.

Alternate Glyphs

These glyphs might be a good option against champions with high physical damage harass and champions that are going to try to use their numbers to beat you. People like , and are going to be able to get to you and there isn't much you're going to be able to do about it. You're going to have to be able to eat the damage, and none of their damage is magic... save 's . These will harden our little for the early game.

These will increase your attack speed. Simple enough. Against teams that do not deal much magic damage these are an option to increase your DPS output. I feel that increases in power the more her defenses she runs. My guess is because of the Pix procs. He cannot miss and deals a lot of damage. This lets us carry mid and late game.

How to Select Your Rune Choices

All we need to do is ask ourselves what we are up against.

Does our enemy have a strong early game?

Run flat runes

Does our enemy increase in power as the game progresses?

Run cumulative runes. They are better at approximately level 9

Does our enemy have high harass?

Run defense runes.

Are we going to be untouchable in lane?

Run damage runes. is very deceptive in damage.

Is the enemy team mostly AD?

Run armor runes.

Is the enemy team mostly AP?

Run magic resist runes.

But my match-up is high harass and does the opposite damage that the team does!

Our #1 consideration is our lane. If their team is mid, ADC, support, jungle and top you better bet you wanna be running at least some magic resist runes to counter his damage and keep yourself in lane.

Summoner Spells

is very flexible. She can run whatever spells the team needs but typically other solo tops are going to run because many tops are tanky and the true damage helps out them out a lot or people will run to help secure kills from the jungler or maybe it's someone like who will kill you the longer he sticks to you.

Best Choices

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These are my go-to summoner spells for solo top. Simply put they offer the most utility, damage and make laning against tanky AND mobile champions much much easier. While can basically run any spells she wants and still do good I've found that she works best with these two

This spell gives you so much more damage and counters all of that lifesteal and health regen that solo tops like to run. It beats 's and 's lifesteal and it beats 's and 's tankiness. I don't see why you would want to run any other offensive spell for solo top. It also provides a HUGE boost in low level duels for first blood as it will counteract on s as well. All in all this spell, while not being the best for teamfighting as , will yield more over the course of a game than any other spell.

is a lifesaver and a life-ender. It is the most overused spell in the game. While a lot of tops can run (which I prefer over on a lot of champions,) it is not something I would recommend on . She is very squishy and needs an escape. While she already has a good escape in the form of and can use it in conjunction with flash is just too good to pass up. Not taking on a squishy champion that requires good positioning is just asking for death. I feel that running on is redundant in the fact that she already has . HOWEVER, if you are certain that you will be able to kill your laning opponent (say someone like ) you can opt out of and grab as this will only make you win your lane that much harder since it will give you more kills from your jungler (assuming you haven't already pushed to his tower thru your natural lane domination.) If you were wondering, I still take against for other reasons.

Conditional Choices

These spells are either sub-par compared to or or are very situational (which I will explain.)

Barrier is a good spell to have when you do NOT have options. Lulu, however, always has options. I would not recommend taking this over due to lack of burst damage in Lulu's kit. If you knew you were going to be dove multiple times over and over without your choice.

This one is an interesting choice. While already has to boost her speed is even faster. It really only shows its use when is dominating her lane (which in itself can be a gamble.) Many times have I had junglers camp top because they think that is free kills and all they ended up doing was let our ADC ramp up on an mindless killing spree while I just CS top and in those situations was needed because I needed that extra escape. I have tried it against and it is rather fun. Being able to out maneuver him and avoid his while annihilating his HP bar does get entertaining. All in all, I would recommend against using this summoner spell.

This is a spell can run but I personally don't use it. Many times I go up against high HP champions that do burst damage and fight to the death. While this can be a useful tool in shutting them down it does not offer the kill securing ability has. Sure it makes your lane a little bit safer, I'll agree with that, and if you feel unsure of then running or is acceptable but I don't feel that losing the heal reduction or extra damage brings to the fight. However, it will make you incredibly strong in a teamfight. Having two s is INSANE to watch. It can make an ADC almost worthless to the point of just ignoring them while they THINK they're doing damage. Add in a third from say a jungle or and your teamfights will go so smooth you wouldn't even believe. All in all I think this is a sub-par choice because it does not let us snowball our lane as well as but if your teamfights are going to be hurting then might be the way to go.

This is a very underrated summoner spell in my opinion. It gives you a quick way to get back to your lane as well as global presence. Teamfight about to start near dragon? Push lane and look for a good time to in and their carry for a quick clean kill. Top is going to wreck you? (something that can never be predicted) Grab and until your heart's content. Just try to save it as much as possible so you can gank other lanes or use it to split push lanes. Another fun use is as an awesome escape. If you're up against someone like or who doesn't have any form of hard CC then you can just use and escape to your base. Haha! always wins.

Poor Choices

For obvious reasons the following summoner spells are not good on as a solo top. If you do not feel the need to run any of the excellent or conditional choices then I can't really see your logic! Please, let me try to sway your opinion.

This is just a poor summoner spell in general. It does not give you any advantage in a fight, no zoning capabilities in lane and no utility otherwise. Taking this summoner spell means you expect to die and you shouldn't die much as unless you are new or are playing against someone you have never played against before. Leave this one for get something else!

While at first you might think can be a decent summoner since uses a LOT of mana to harass and kite. However, with a little bit of practice and a little bit of patience you will quickly learn how to conserve mana. It is even easier if you are used to play high mana cost supports, like ! While this summoner spell expands the use and frequency of your normal kit it does not ADD any additional capabilities.

This is a no-brainer. is for jungling not solo top. Jungling on was very fun in season 2 but is now very very difficult due to her start. Leave this for your jungler.

This is not the spell for you. While I like it a lot, it doesn't serve you any good in a 1v1 fight. It is also hard to CS, avoid harass, think about jungle ganks and use this ability to track the jungler. You COULD use it to reveal brush while you chase someone down but Pix already does that for you! No need to take this summoner spell on a solo top .

Skill Sequence

As you can see, I just doodled with the skill sequence in the build. That is because Lulu is an evolving champion and all of her abilities will come into play differently. She is not like where one ability will ALWAYS come out on top of the others. Level your abilties BASED ON WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED I will try to sum it up as best as I can. Below are examples.

Example Ability Sequences From Past Games

High Harass Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Burst Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Getting Camped Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

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Your go-to spell for damage, harass and a major part of protection. Choosing to level this skill first will give you better harass and damage over prolonged fights. It will also make junglers without CC more effective as it will slow for them so they can do some damage. Glitterlance give you quite a bit of pushing power as well. Level this first if you are doing well.

If you are not doing well leveling this will give you a better way to escape assuming the enemy isn't someone who can jump on top of you (ie: .) Each rank slightly increases the mana cost so be leery of that but don't worry too much.

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The spell that makes one of the most mobile champions in the top lane. Putting a point into this very early will keep you safe from virtually every gank in the game. Leveling it first will give you more CC for teamfights or duels. Level this spell when you need to use a CC chain to take someone down. The AP boost on it is lackluster for On-hit Lulu. I usually put an extra point into this even when I'm doing great. An extra .25 seconds is a lot longer than you might think it is.

The cost increase of this spell per rank is moderate but noticeable. The drawback to leveling this ability is that you will burn more mana using it as a harass technique but gain power in a ganking/dueling situation. Keep this in mind when selecting where to put your next point. Against someone like this ability will do very well. Against someone like this ability will not shine so brightly.

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Damage, defense, utility and style all wrapped up into one ability. Leveling this ability will give you better burst damage. The base damage on it is actually very high making harass very easy. All of the utility will be gained from just having access to this ability. Just some advice, DO NOT us this on yourself in a duel. It deals more damage than it shields and guarantees Pix a clear line of sight to land his damage.

The main drawnback of leveling this ability is the very high mana cost increase. Generally you would use this to harass. It deals a hefty amount of damage itself and then gives you a point black to smack your enemy with. Be careful about spamming this combo if you choose to max first.

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Put a point in your ultimate whenever possible. It is one of the best ultimates for a solo lane in the game in my opinion. Increasing it's rank grants more health, more slow and most importantly a better cooldown. Use this advantage to out play and out last your lane and jungler. Abuse your low CD ult as much as you can to annihilate the competition. This is a very effective tool to use in turret dives, both defensive ones and offensive ones.

There are no drawbacks to leveling this skill! The cost stays the same and the CD is reduced, not to mention it's bonuses.

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Starting Items

In this section we'll look at how items affect Lulu and how she is played.

Let's start with the starting items.

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Why do I start cloth armor? Most of the top lanes now are very sticky and are hard to disengage from. Thus, it behooves our Lulu to be able to take the punishment in the early levels. Lulu is at a core a support and is not designed to take big burst at lower levels. Cloth mitigates a huge amount of this burst and the health potions allow us to heal back lost health while collecting crucial CS.

Doran's items are very strong on many champions and Lulu is no exception. She is designed to punish enemies for their actions if extending into Lulu's zone. While running high damage runes on AA's this makes it very annoying for the enemy laner to aquire CS. Sporting about 67 AD at lvl 1 eating 3 or 4 attacks from Lulu is ~ 1/4 of their health bar. Capitalize on this by increasing your strength in lane. Doran's blade is perfect. If the enemy is OVER agressive use this chance to buy a Doran's shield. (Doubtful this will happen)

After we buy our doran's we need to upgrade our mobility because so is our enemy. When your enemy upgrades their mobility you should too, but you will also benefit from upgrading your mobility earlier than them versus trying to take raw damage items. We simply counter our lane and jungle with our choice of boots. We must ask ourselves some questions when choosing our boots.

"Is the enemy an AD champion that I will sometimes have to fight on their terms?" Ex: , or
Then we will buy

"Is the enemy an AP champion that I will have to soak harass and deal with CC?" Ex: , or
Then we will buy

"Is the enemy completely outclassed by me with low harass and will fight only on my terms and never on their own?" Ex: , or
Then we will buy because the other options are either too expensive for the time, or not as effective as more damage. Swap them later after you have reaped a hefty snowballing lane.

From here we will build items that counter the enemy champions. As a note, I almost NEVER find myself taking berserker greaves and I recommend against it unless you're in an extremely rare circumstance.

Boots Enhancements

With season 3 boots enhancements were added to give you that little extra bit of depth to boots. relies on her placement and utility to enable her to deal her sustain damage to the enemy team. It can be a game ending choice if you pick the wrong type of boots enhancement.

These are a general choice for . She is very slow and that little extra bit will go a long way. In fact, is SO slow that even after taking boots first some champions will still move faster than her while opting out of boots at the start. If a lot of assassins or bruisers are grabbing this you should probably do the same. Also if the enemy team is mostly melee you should think about grabbing this as well because of the passive better positioning and they are all going to have high base movement speeds.

Furor is an aggressive bonus. It will increase your speed by 12% after landing an attack on someone. 300x.12 = 36 That means that after you hit someone you will gain 36 movement speed that will decay. Not as awesome as it first sounded is it? You only gain an additional 21 movement speed after hitting someone. While it is great to chase and I love this mechanic, I just wanted to point out that it isn't all that amazing on when compared to other champions, like . I'd grab this if you are snowballing and/or up against someone that will try to run away a lot, or if you are up against a primarily ranged team as they will all have low base movement speeds.

Boy are these fun. They let you get back to lane REALLY fast. These are a GREAT choice when you are losing your lane because of a few mistakes and early ganks. Having an instant top off alone will save you TONS of time. While these aren't going to let you dominate your lane they give unparallelled utility for your lane. After the laning phase they will let you get back to roaming faster and will help you defend towers against multiple enemies much easier. Try these on when you need to play defensively.

Distortion is pretty lackluster on in my opinion. I think it really shines on champions that DON'T already have good mobility. Someone like would like this more since he doesn't already have good mobility and relies on to keep him stuck to someone if they juke his slow. Taking these will put your on a 300x.75=225 second CD. If you find yourself relying on to position yourself in teamfights you should consider getting these. If you find that your placement is fine and you need more passive mobility in a teamfight is going to be what you want, not this.

This really isn't designed for solo tops in mind. It is more for someone who needs their team to follow them into battle, like or . Tanks are able to buff their team to take advantage of their initiates and disruption. When playing you should be near the back taking advantage of your 550 range instead of being in the thick of things. Leave this one for your tank as it would be a waste to buff your team's ability to run away! Choose an enhancement that will let you steamroll the enemy team through out positioning them and outplaying them.

Items - Explained

Here is where I will explain the math behind my choices in items. I will try to do my best in estimating cost versus damage, defense and utility as well as explain when to get the item.

When choosing your items choose them based on your enemy and his items. top thrives on the ability to adapt to ANY situation/champion/item combination. There is always a way you are going to be able to whip up on the enemy, you just need to look hard enough. In general, follow these rules:

Attack Speed - DPS
Ability Power - Burst
Health - Burst Survivability
Armor - Physical sustain survivability
Magic Resist - Magical sustain survivability
Magic Penetration - Defeat magic resist
Movement Speed Modifiers - Utility
Lifesteal / Spell Vamp - Slight in-fight sustain

Wait! Pix is Lulu's passive he's not an item! Oh but he is. Pix has a constant damage amount and a slight amount of damage scaling and should be taken into direct account for every purchase. At max rank Pix will be hitting for 105+ damage. That's more than a max rank . Quite a bit. Pix is what allows Lulu to make such great trades with enemies. If you have matching items, Lulu is already winning.

Wit's End is going to be our go-to source of damage for the game. It produces a high damaging effect of 42 magic damage and increases our magic resist by 5 stacking up to 4 times while shredding the enemy's by the same amount. With a 40 AS steroid it directly synergizes with Nashor's Tooth and all of our spells. Wit's End should be bought for it's damage and survivability making it never a bad choice.

This item is ridiculous on an AS based champion. Building this item first gives you huge defense and offense against almost ANY champion that needs to get in your face to kill you. It even counters that op item active. Counter borking someone is a great way to stay alive.

With the current state of bruisers this item isn't as powerful as it was for a while there. While I DO love it's sustain damage fights usually don't last long enough anymore for it's damage to matter and with bruisers being so direct with damage and "in your face trades" in lane I would steer away from this item for now unless you're fighting someone like Teemo. If your team needs you to be more hardy then you should look into an item like zeke's herald.

Frozen Mallet is a great purchase for Lulu and lets her kite for days. It gives a huge bonus to health as well making it a good staple part of a build for many teamcomps. It is also not a mandatory item most of the time and can and should be skipped a lot. It's pure strength against melee heavy teams lands it in a spot at the top of list for me.

Once your enemies have roughly 100 MR your damage is going to plummet. To counter this problem we buy magic pen! This little baby is going to give you all the magic pen you need to go along with your . It will cause an even greater effect on champions rocking over 100 MR. Let's use 100 MR as our number.

They have 100 MR, we have , and . We first drop 35% MR from our % penetration. This puts them at 60 MR. Then we drop them 25 more from the stacks. That's a grand total of 35. Talk about manageable. If someone on your team that decreases MR, (like or ) it can get even lower! Just for fun:

(100 MR x .65) - 25 - 10 - 20 = 10 MR. Happy killingspree.

TF provides small stats that Lulu wants but in no way is this a core item. It is a situational item in the extreme. If you need a little bit of everything then consider this item. It is extremely expensive and is not going to increase your damage the way or will. A good example would be when you need to kite hard in a teamfight while gaining a little health. It DOES provide a large stat pool but they are not very focused stats. The active is very lackluster seeing as Lulu has one of the LOWEST base ad's in the game. I suggest against this item

Alright. I understand why a lot of people would suggest against this item but it gives decent stats for . While it is not an optimal DPS item, it is REALLY FREAKING CHEAP. Grabbing this for early fights will let you extend your early game advantage just that much more. At max stacks (which will take about 2 seconds for to get) it provides an additional 72 AP and 32% attack speed. That is a SUBSTANTIAL GAIN for only 2600 gold. Keeping in mind that each stat is a compounded with the passive of and the neat little passive on the blade itself can come in handy. is great at baiting with low health which is where this item shines the most. Grab and try it out to snowball your lane. It is a very fun item to play around with. It is an early game gamble, but it's still a ton of fun to snowball.

Ok, so this looks like the end all item for On-Hit based champions. While that is very true and it makes Teemo and Kog'Maw do TONS OF DAMAGE it doesn't exactly work the same way for Lulu. Now, I'm sure right now you're scratching your head wondering how this is possible but its really simple. Other champions have some passive ability that let's them take advantage of this item. Teemo has his poison which hits for a truckload and the DoT does the same and Kog'Maw of course has his passive 4% of max health to tack on. Ok, so why isn't it good for Lulu? Well it is! It just doesn't scale off of Pix, it will probably put you over 2.0 attack speed and it gives us NO DEFENSIVE stats. Lulu has no natural gain to benefit from this item. It simply compounds damage from your other items. If you're team is dominating and you need more AoE damage sure grab this item... but if you're having trouble focusing targets down I'd highly recommend against this item.

In the previous version of my guide I had included this item into the build as a late game item. While it is a good item, it just pales in comparison to many others now that the passive and mastery exist. It still serves it's purpose that it used to (giving a tiny bit of sustain with a utility active) but in my opinion the damage options have broadened and there is no reason to take this item anymore.

Zeke's Herald

This item isn't as good as it used to be. It is now more of a lifesteal item. While it gives CDR (which we want) and health (which we also want) it doesn't give us any attack speed bonus and the lifesteal component of this item was always lackluster on . It simply gave her a powerful aura that buffed her team and gave her some sustain. Building a will give us more CDR and give us a ton of extra damage to play with. Have your support grab this item so you can benefit off of the aura.

This item is an item for a fed only. Although from the outside this item looks like it will be the best dps item for since she is played like a bruiser with an on-hit build. Here are the reasons that we will not have as a go-to item for . It starts with a 60 AD bonus. This is an alright bonus, but since you do not stacking that much armor pen you are still going to primarily deal magic damage. The lifesteal starts at 12% which is a good amount of lifesteal. These bonuses then can stack up to 100 and 20% respectively. The problem with this is that if we die we do not keep these bonuses. Another problem with this item is that it does not come out of the box as a complete killing machine. This item should be bought late, after you sell your s for the sustain it provides in fights. While we are focusing on magic damage our masteries still provide us with base ArP and a BT will annihilate that squishy carry or mage.

This is not a bad item on however there is a very small fraction of the time that it would be a good pick. If you need to kite a cc heavy AD team you would want this item so you can maintain a . Other than that this item is only an acceptable placeholder to counter the enemy team's items and teamcomp, not to boost your own.

Example Builds with Match-Ups

Below are two example match-ups and items that I bought to counter the enemy champion in lane and an endgame build to use in teamfights to highlight how incredibly flexable Lulu is when played in a solo lane.

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Laning Build Order

End Game Build
zeke's herald
Total Build Cost: 13667

In this build, Lulu is focusing on damage over survivability because her team is able to throw down heavy CC across the board meaning Lulu will be free to damage champions at her leisure. I chose to buy the Zeke's for my team for 4 reasons. 1) I needed health, 2) I wanted some regen, 3) it capped my CDR to 40%, 4) it gave Leona more options. I did not get Guardian Angel because teamfights were running smoothly and the enemy champions were too busy chasing Ezreal so I could cut them down ultimately earning the respect of my entire team at the score screen due to me dealing most damage to enemy champions!

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ADC
Support

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Laning Build Order

End Game Build
zeke's herald
Total Build Cost: 15975

This game I was forced into play front lines with Maokai. We had a LOT of AoE CC and using Maokai to initiate and comboing him into my Wild Growth and all of our AoE ended teamfights very quickly. However, since I was so front lines the enemy took it upon themselves to focus me down. Luckily, I saw this coming from the start and built a lot of health to make it through most of the teamfights with my life intact. I was not dealing a LOT of damage but my CC proved to be too much for the other team to get to either Miss Fortune or Anivia netting us a near flawless victory.

Advanced Skill Usage

I feel that has the most complex and advanced skill set in the league. While I believe has the most complete kit, it does not have the sheer control Lulu has to offer. (and he has 4 more spells than does!)

Glitterlance

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can have it's range extended by Pix. What do you mean? Well it is fired from both and Pix. Only one bolt can damage... but they both can slow. So yes, this means you can slow someone for even longer with a perfect lined up shot from both Pix and . They're a team after all! This helps with chasing and ganking/receiving ganks.

If you have a strong initiator on your team you can attach Pix to your tank and use both your tank and Pix to extend your . Be careful! Pix will return to 's side after 5 seconds.

You can also fire in two directions. This in my opinion is the hardest possible thing to do in league of legends! I've been playing forever and I'm still really bad at it!

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is a very fun skill. It is a speed boost, an ap boost, a silence, a slow and most importantly it can be cast on other people. This skill should be used sparingly as this is your main escape, your main chase and your main kill secure. Learning just when to cast is going to make or break a .

Use it on an enemy when you need to stop a powerful buff / spell (ie: , ) or to prevent ability usage all together (ie: , .)

Use it to help chase. You don't even have to be the one chasing them. Many times have I given my to and watched him hunt down 2 low health champions while I keep their tank/support at bay. Use this on or and watch how fast they speed into battle and catch their carry off guard! Be careful though. If he isn't going to be able to cc their ADC for very long you might wanna save so you can do that! Using on your jungler after you just barely escaped death might secure you an assist!

Help, Pix!

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This skill is what makes so freaking annoying to lane against. It deals moderate damage when used on an enemy but most importantly it grants vision on them. Ok, so you're thinking that's cool and all for and but how is this going to help me beat a freaking ? Easy. You can use the brush, she can't. That simple. She won't drop minion aggro by walking into a bush and you aren't going to stop attacking her either. Using this spell on an enemy also guarantees Pix to hit his target (usually).

Use it after someone has harassed you so they cannot escape into the brush. Use it to prevent stealth. and get annihilated by this spell. Use it as boost to launch . But the one thing you do not wanna use it for is it's shield. It doesn't deal as much damage and it doesn't guarantee Pix procs. Sure, shield yourself or someone else to prevent ticks or other dots but in a duel do NOT use it on yourself.

Similar to you can put this on someone else, hit 'em with , watch them rocket into battle, then from 1500 units away and secure a kill.

There is also one other crazy use that I found in a support guide for . Since it grants VISION it can actually see a ward. How nuts is that? AND you can hit it and kill it! Now this sounds cool but it's VERY VERY VERY hard to do. Your best bet is to drag a minion over the ward, (and I mean DIRECTLY over the ward,) and try to see it and kill it. There's no way you can pull this off under pressure so don't sweat it, but just to let you know of it's uses!

Wild Growth

"Almost got her! OMG she's so annoying"
"Nah she's dead let's dive, I got full health and I mean come on. It's LULU"
Double Kill!

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I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've gotten free double kills from people that underestimate the power of . Her ult makes her deceptively tanky. This spell is going to lull your opponents into staying longer than they should. Use it for it's health boost yes, but it helps secure kills early game. It's knock-up is VERY powerful. Everyone hates 's knock-up... well if you have and on the same team you essentially have a ! It's really fun, try it some time. All you need to do is earn 's trust first!

All play aside, this spell does have it's downfalls. It costs a lot of mana. When i die I always seem to have been 20 mana short of my ult. Argh! It makes me so angry but it is what it is. Something to keep in mind, some champions that have dashes will enter your hitbox. Now this doesn't sound relevant but it is. Your ult knocks up SURROUNDING enemies... it will not knock up a standing inside you, or or that just dashed to you. Be sure to wait a second to let the collision lines catch up if you want to use this as a knock-up.

Video Example

Just a quick video example of some of the above mentioned items.

Teamfighting As Lulu

While I can sit here all day and tell you how to win your lane I can't tell you how to win the GAME. doesn't teamfight like any other solo top, in my opinion at least. Simply put, she has a support's kit with the throughput of a bruiser. While she doesn't do a lot of burst damage she can pump out some good numbers. Thus brings us to our problem... cannot carry her team to victory like say . She is NOT an assassin and cannot be played like one, (unless you're REALLY freaking fed and the other team is REALLY freaking bad.) This is where a lot of people that play as a solo top fail and thus they think she is bad. I'll try to break it down.

* is a support.
* A support is a champion that does not rely on items to impact a teamfight.
* scales very well with attack speed.
* So can do damage, while using her kit to support.

I think that sums it up. Your position in a fight will depend on your team composition and the enemy team composition.

How to position yourself

It is important to know where you should place our cute little when in a teamfight, and right before one. Most enemy teams will try to focus you as they see you as a free and easy kill. While this is partly true, we have our runes, masteries and items to keep us a little safer. Keep this in mind when setting yourself up.

You have a tank - They have a tank

This situation is fairly easy. Your tank (or initiator/disruptor) is going to be towards the front of the group. Their tank is going to be in the same position, but for their team of course. Each tank is going to try to use their abilities to gain the upper hand for their team. Tanks like are going to jump on their AP or AD carry and stick to one person while tanks like are going to jump in, disrupt and then look to disrupt again. Make sure you are hovering around the middle of the pack... slightly forward of your ADC and slightly forward of your AP carry. If you have an assassin on your team you might want to hang around them as you can make them very potent. Simply let the teamfight start and then look to focus down their ADC as quick as possible (or the one you want to focus.) After your target is dead turn your focus to your team and help keep them alive.

In this example heads in to disrupt the bruiser and slow the team. The bruiser will either attempt a squishier target, such as the ADC, or . If he poses no threat to the ADC ignore him. Instead attack flank from the side to lay down damage. If he does pose a threat then exit the zone of the other champions and kill the bruiser while waiting to use your abilities to CC.

This example is a typical Baron bait/fight. You want to stay well out of the enemy tank's zoning capabilities as with a whole team trying to nuke down squishy they will be able to do so and possibly get out as well. Your objective here should be to destroy the enemy ADC. He is probably building zero defense and as such you will be able to quickly take him out with your 3 second CC and burst. Keep an eye on your tank as he will give you great opportunities to chain your with his CC.

You have a tank - They don't, they have two Assassins

This is tricky. In this situation your tank is going to want to initiate on one of the assassins because if he let's them run free they are going to pick off your damage while the enemy ADC is safe and sound. Your team needs damage to kill an ADC. Once the fight starts look to stop the would-be assassins from killing your carries. They have burst, not sustain so CCing them will be VERY effective and will let your AP nuke take them out. Assassins generally don't build a LOT of defense like a tank, but they are durable to the point where they will survive a . Use and to keep the CC chain going and finish them off. Once your ADC is safe you should be turning your attention towards killing whoever is doing the most damage (usually the enemy ADC.)

Basically when positioning yourself you can look at the above examples except can take a more aggressive position due to the tank's zone.

No tank - No tank

This is my favorite! Simply because while neither teams have a tank you kinda do! is GREAT at disrupting! While she is not durable she can have someone ELSE be durable and use THEM as her staging point to wreck havoc on the enemy team. For starters, attaching Pix to someone like is going to make him pretty powerful. You can land a slow if he misses. Not only that but giving him and combining that with his will only make him get to the enemy ADC THAT much faster.

If you have someone like or my personal favorite, , you can turn them into a pseudo-! Have ult and dive at their enemy carry. Be quick and follow him! Cast on him as he enters the enemy team. This will knock up everyone and give him some survivability. After that, throw a on someone that does a lot of damage. The rest of your team should have followed you two in. At this point is in some serious trouble and WILL die if you don't kill the enemy team quickly but don't sweat it. Your ADC should have already killed two people by the time your wears off. Try to keep a CC chain going on high priority targets as long as possible.

The following example is how a fight in the mid lane would generally go. Your team should focus down their AD carry first as he is going to be the most sustained damage across the fight. The enemy team will try to nab a quick kill on your AD carry as well as that is basically the only way they will be able to win a teamfight. You should attempt to intercept their assassins if possible. It might also be a good idea to let some champions (like or ) to go ahead and jump on your carry as you can easily CC them to victory. If your AD carry dies, you should assume the role of sustain damage and begin playing like one.

Here is a fun fight. Basically the enemy team is going to try to lure your team into a position where their assassins can catch your AD carry without a route of escape. The use of brush will provide a significant zoning advantage to the enemy team. Your support should at least have the wraith brush warded, it wouldn't be a bad idea to ward the Red Buff as well. The main focus of this kind of fight should be to zone out enemies. Head for the enemy AD carry and burst him down. After that you should look into whoever does the most damage next, usually the AP carry. Your support should be looking after your carry, but if he needs help it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep him alive for the duration of the fight.

Quick Teamfighting Guidelines

1) Never stop attacking. Why did you build damage items if you aren't going to use them!

2) Never leave something on cooldown. The more CC and damage you're throwing around the better.

3) Don't be afraid to die. Lulu is cute and cuddly! She's fragile and will die a lot in teamfights even when you're doing the right thing. That doesn't matter! So long as your team WINS!

4) Don't get discouraged if you lose once. Yes, you might lose a few fights but that's ok! As Lulu there's TONS of ways to approach a fight. Try out every avenue before agreeing to that /ff.

Watch your own replays. I can't stress this enough. If there's a fight that you lost and you THINK you could have done better go back and watch your own replay. While LOLRecorder is used mostly for entertainment it is an invaluable learning tool.

Laning Match-Ups

There are many top lane champions that can walk all over. If you are familiar with Lulu as a top you might want to skip this part. If you are new, you might want to give this a quick browse. Your enemies will underestimate your determination and power as . Soon they too will be in fear of her as she bags and tags both top and the jungler. Who will be next to be a believer?

Easy Lanes

These lanes are free wins! Bully them as often as you can. It will hurt their pride. It's awesome I swear!

is going to be a very easy counter. Simply put, if he uses his slow, shoot your . If he uses his ult and , use . Keep the pressure on. Your first item should be followed by . will give you tons of early damage against and will just let you sit there and kill him. If he tries to tower dive you, let him keep thinking he can kill you and blow at the last second to ensure as many tower hits as possible. Keep in mind, if your tower cannot see enemy minions it gets a monster damage boost. Use this knowledge to punish people that think they can tower dive .

gets his damage from armor. You deal magic damage. His entire kit is wasted. He can however harass you very well early on with his Q. Be careful and play it safe. I've found that it is very effective to buy a Philosopher's stone and use it for the health regen and mana regen. Use you E on yourself (default quick key is Alt+E) when you see his Q coming for you. You cannot harass like or because of his passive shield. To combat this just run him out of mana! He will get zero cs, and you will get all of it!

is very annoying. What makes annoying is his dash. This can be used to get away, and it can be used to jump on you to help their jungler gank. You cannot drive out of lane from mana deprivation so you will have to drive him out through damage. Eventually he is going to come back with enough health and regen to stay in lane forever... this is why is freaking banned all the time... oh and his ult. By the time he is able to do this you should be ready for him! Getting will help lower his MR making harass easier for you. After you get a few stacks of rolling hit him with your combo. This should do some damage to drive him off. His dash is nowhere near as short a cooldown as your combo and let's face it, Pix will shoot a at him while he's behind his turret. Drive out of lane and don't miss any last hits!
It is also very important to note that both your and will cancel the teleport on his ult. If you see him channeling stop him! It will put his ult on full CD and you will be able to take him by surprise!

Medium Difficulty

These lanes can kill you if you play poorly but they are still no match for solo top !

is pretty easy to beat but he can beat you if you don't play right. The trick is to deny him farm and deny his ability to land his Q. If he lands then he is going to come up to you to land and both of these abilities do a lot of damage. If he lands his axe you are going to want to hit him with a and keep your distance while keeping the pressure on to keep him in check. You cannot win a duel against because of his passive attack speed bonus. Where is deceptive when she gets low on health actually gets STRONGER. Keep your distance, make him use his ult, and then turret dive him with the help of your jungler. You should be harassing him away from his minions so he cannot get CS. If he is getting CS then you might have a problem should commit to a full out charge with and up.

is annoying. He uses the brush to gain range on you. If you stay on the opposite side of the brush while he waits to leap at you you are already winning. He cannot CS while inside the brush and if you aren't going to go near it then why is he even standing in there? Keep an eye on his points below his health bar. If he has 4 he is going to try to jump on you and burst you. Generally after that's done you are going to be hurting. If he jumps on you like that simply use and on him. You need to be fast or else he is going to be able to land the second Q which will hurt, a lot. However, if you ARE fast enough he will only be able to land his first Q which doesn't do much damage. Simply harass him away from his minions to prevent him from regening and get a gank from your jungler. This lion should be easy pickings for our little . Get and an early to counter him.

isn't that bad but the problem with her is her ability to stick to us. If she charges you need to be able to get away. She's going to charge again. To beat this we need to use BOTH of our slows. So what we do is first and then after the second charge. Sounds easy but in practice it can be rather difficult. If she has you are going to need to be a coward because if the slow lands you are pretty much done. Once she has you will want to try to take her with your own items. To do this, wait for her and then her. This will WASTE her attack speed buff and give you free pot shots. If she tries to use her ult on you near you tower you should run behind it, forcing her to reappear behind the tower. Try to save your ult. If you have to use it, you have to use it, but if you use it as a knockup will be ruing the day after she is stuck under your tower for 4-5 hits. will stop a lot of her damage.

While I believe is one of the weakest tops, she can get fed and will be hard to duel 1v1. While it isn't that hard to kill her, the problem is her tankiness. She can eat a LOT of damage before death. She doesn't have a real escape and you will have to use this to your advantage. A good way to defeat in a 1v1 is to her when she uses . This will waste not only true damage, but also waste the regen it gives her. If your jungler is coming in for a gank and you want to get a head start on use BEFORE he gets there. This way her passive won't be stronger and will allow for better pot shots. If she stuns you dont sweat it, use pix and to take her down. Keep your distance. Make her use her Q to engage. Do not stand near low health minions, as she can use the minion to engage you, then dash to you again once you make some distance. Get two s and a or to defeat her. I highly recommend you also start the with a and let it sit there early and use the extra 850 gold to get more damage with in most cases as is probably going to buy .

Hard Lanes

These lanes will take some practice. Do not get discouraged if you lose to these a champions a few times.

is a fairly difficult opponent to lane against. Her high mobility makes it risky to harass her and he range is pretty annoying. Most of the time s will be very aggressive. Use this to your advantage. If she hits you, try to keep her in your minions as long as possible. Sometimes this can even go in your favor as one hit will draw minion aggro and if she only lands one hit and chases you through the minions she is going to take a lot of damage. Be careful once she gets her ult as this is when will be able to kill you. If you time your ult with hers you should be alright. Try not to burn yours and make her waste hers. Once her ult is down you can safely harass her again. Just play cautious and try to get as many last hits as possible until you can get a phage for health. Be sure to buy !!! This item will wreck 's damage! She will probably come back to lane with . If you get double s they should help with early game harass until you can get something like or . You will probably lose your first time against but learn from all of these mistakes and come back and beat her next time!

I think is a pretty easy champion to beat in lane. I'm putting him here in the hard match-ups because of what he CAN do. His harass is pretty good, but in doing so he pushes his lane. If he gets ganks from the jungle he can finish you off really quickly. He doesn't have many escapes and that is where his weakness is! You can harass him pretty good early on and he can make the trades with you. However, you can escaoe a jungle gank and he cannot. Use your mobility to start whittling him down. If he tries to straight up kill you you're probably going to win more if you run away. If you see him ult you can use your own. This will give you extra life to survive the true damage but can also INTERRUPT IT ENTIRELY if you time it just right. With 100 ping I don't know if this is possible. Harass him down, use Pix as much as you can and get ganks. All in all isn't a problem for but he can be if you let him.

is very difficult for he has a lot of mobility that will let him not only catch up to you but also get away from ganks from the jungler. You will easily push out of lane thru mana deprivation if he tries to harass you constantly. He will have to go hammer stance and start pushing to get his mana back. When he does this, use this as your chance to harass. You have 6 seconds before he can switch back to his range stance. If he's smart, he will try to jump on you, hit you a few times, knock you back, then switch over to range stance and try to deal more damage. If this happens it can get pretty ugly. To counter this you should build you should also know that can slow for about the same amount of time as his speed boost keeps him up to speed. Time your with your to whittle him down in lane. When in doubt, you can shield yourself to help soak harass. He has no true ultimate so be careful. Use this to your advantage as your ult will give you a huge leg up on him should he decide to commit to a kill attempt. If your jungler is coming up try to "do something stupid" to lure him in for a kill. Once he tries to kill you, slow him and finish him off. As stated earlier, are a good counter to . Grab two s and a to make laning against him easier. If you can dodge his E - Q combo, (the gate + snipe) then you will be avoiding 80% of his harass.

Hard Counters

Just like every other top has hard counters that will destroy her! Be very careful when laning against these bullies. I would recommend that if you counter picked with one of these that you either support or jungle. Generally supporting is your safest bet even though I hate having to support on ! One mistake against these guys and they can steamroll your lane like no other, but if you can get an edge on them you can beat them down!

has awesome lane sustain. His Q will is a low CD harass that always heals him. So annoying! His first item is going to be to keep him in lane for longer. While he will stay in lane much better from this item it won't give him a lot of damage. It's simple... sorta. He's going to try to harass you when his Q comes off CD, if he can't harass you he's going to use it on a minion to keep his health up. When he does this go in for your own harass! and and chase him down! Don't offer him an inch of space or he'll take a couple feet. When you see your jungler approaching for a gank play very aggressive (not that you shouldn't be already) and try to force his pool. Once that's down he's an easy kill! Grab a to survive burst, early and rush a ! If you can get a kill or 2 up on him in lane you will be easily able to push him to his turret in fear and open up jungle and mid lane for you to gank.

is annoying. He has insane damage, insane mobility, and an annoying slow. Oh, and to top it off, he doesn't use mana. He will eventually push you out of lane from mana deprivation if you play passively. likes . Now, it is a very useful item, but it rushing this item makes him very squishy and he doesn't do all that much damage from getting this item. This is the time to kill . Get your jungler to come in for the gank. When comes to try and harass jump on him with your jungler. He has a speed boost (his shield) so save your slows for that. Use if you can to knock him up if he has his shield on. That should make kills easy. If you can't get a kill on him or he's playing very defensively don't let him use on the minions. It gives him a LOT of health back. To stop him from doing this use and combo to slow him and harass him. If he's running away from you he doesn't do damage. Stand behind minions to block his slow and pound away on him to keep him away from precious lane sustain.

is the worst. He has a low cd gap closer/escape, a low cd attack reset with tons of bonus damage, a stacking attack speed steroid that makes him more powerful the longer he fights, a stun that blocks all attacks before he uses it and his ultimate gives him bonus armor and magic resist that scale off of his AD and AP. Basically what I'm saying is he builds straight damage and gets all the benefits of building defensively. Not fair. I've tried many many many times but even the dumbest of 's can kill with ease. No matter what I try I always lose to that stupid stun. Generally will build hybrid items like and ; because of this I build with two s. This gives me reduction on the stun, some of his damage and gives me a little bit of life to survive burst. Next I build and to give me MORE health and a bit of a movement speed boost. Basically there's no way to kill unless he's really dumb and let's you harass him down way far and you kite him, your jungler CAMPS top HARD, he tries to turret dive you multiple times or you somehow get super fed early on. You aren't going to do very well in duels against so just make sure you get all the last hits and follow him when he leaves the lane.

is a nightmare. He can make amazing trades, kite for days, ward himself, gank his own lane, turn invisible and worst off he snowballs soo hard! To harass our has to use her mana. To harass us, only needs to basic attack. His attacks apply a hefy amount of poison damage that scales VERY well off of his AP. His deals a lot of damage as well. It is a 1:1 AP ratio meaning it scales very well with his AP. It also blinds us for a short while. Pix procs will still hit him but that's it! That isn't that much damage. Build all magic defense items, lots of health and grab your turtle shell because you're going to want to just CS all you can and when isn't look push your lane hard and gank mid or jungle. The light at the end of the tunnel is that is very squishy. If you can get fed you can take him one on one. He will build items similar to you so be prepared. and almost cancel each other out. If you do get the chance to build damage items you want to get your first to make harassing him better. The AP on it and the bonus attack speed will make it better for quick trades while would be better for duels. Be leery of his mushrooms. If your jungler has an have him come top to help you clear out the mushrooms. It helps a ton! and that's quite a bit of what makes ganking so hard. Steel your mind and harden your , this will be an epic lane for the ages!

Counter Item Reference Guide

Just a quick reference guide for solo top match ups. These are items I've found work consistently well from a lot of my games. Take a quick glance at this if you're unsure of what items to take early in game. The items are generally set up boots, defensive item, then damage item but build the items in order of how you feel fit... or maybe you don't agree with me at all and have your own items that you want to build. That's perfect too!

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Aatrox

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Cho'gath

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Darius

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Dr. Mundo

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Evelynn

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Fiora

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Gangplank

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Garen

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Hecarim

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Irelia

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Jarvan IV

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Jax

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Jayce

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Kayle

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Kennen

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Kha'Zix

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Lee Sin

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Malphite

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Master Yi

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Mordekaiser

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Nasus

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Nidalee

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Nunu

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Olaf

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Pantheon

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Poppy

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Renekton

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Rengar

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Riven

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Rumble

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Shen

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Singed

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Sion

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Teemo

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Tryndamere

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Vi

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Let my matches speak for themselves.

Closing Remarks

I plan to keep this as up to date as possible. I do not have all of the math done yet as all the numbers have changed since season 2. It is quite a pain. Also if anyone has anything to add please leave a comment. If you find any grammar or broken links or anything please let me know. If you think you have a better idea please let me know and come prepared with math to back it up. If anyone has a good way to explain armor and mr and pen better please give me a link and help me out. It makes perfect sense to me but I know for a fact that it is very hard to follow.

If you do not think Lulu should be played as a solo top then do not leave a comment, do not vote and continue on to a support Lulu guide as this is not a guide for you and your opinion will not be valued with me or anyone else that has an interest in playing Lulu as a solo top. You can find an awesome support Lulu guide here. No hard feelings it is simply the only fair option.

In the future I plan to add (in no particular order):

-all the colors!
-videos showcasing live use of Lulu as a solo top
-a rating system for items
-beautification

Lastly, thanks to all who commented with corrections and ideas! They have helped me greatly improve my play and guide and to those that pushed me to update to the new season!

Lulu - Solo Top Reference

Lulu - Solo Top Reference

Recommended Items

Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Ability Order

Pix, Faerie Companion (PASSIVE)

Glitterlance (Q)

Whimsy (W)

Help, Pix! (E)

Wild Growth (R)

Introduction

When to play Lulu Top?

Masteries

Offense

Defense

Runes

Alternate Quint Choices

Alternate Marks

Alternate Seals

Alternate Glyphs

How to Select Your Rune Choices

Summoner Spells

Best Choices

Conditional Choices

Poor Choices

Skill Sequence

Starting Items

Boots Enhancements

Items - Explained

Example Builds with Match-Ups

Advanced Skill Usage

Glitterlance

Whimsy

Help, Pix!

Wild Growth

Video Example

Teamfighting As Lulu

How to position yourself

Quick Teamfighting Guidelines

Laning Match-Ups

Counter Item Reference Guide

Skeptical?

Closing Remarks

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