League of Legends (LoL) Question: Lulu support tips?

First things first, Lulu is never meant to be a damage-oriented champion. Even in top/mid where you're building a lot of AP, she's a lot more effective if you use your spells to buff up your team instead. However, in early game you can still very effectively poke down the enemy botlane. Note the emphasis on poke. Lulu isn't a champion to burst down the enemy, she harasses them with long range E-Q combo's and autoattacks and forces them to lose farm that way rather than just straight up killing them.

Always start Spellthief's Edge, 3 Health Potion's and 1 Mana Potion. Only get the upgraded Frostfang if you want to snowball lane through damage, otherwise it's more effective to get your core build (tier 2 boots, sightstone, upgraded red trinket) first. After that decide if you need Mikael's Blessing (usually good versus lots of CC or high burst), Locket of the Iron Solari (versus significant magic damage, e.g. 2 magic damage threats in top and mid) or something like Morellonomicon (when you're snowballing an advantage while there's not a clear threat on your enemy team which you need any of the former for. After that you can get whatever you need, more AP or utility.

Keep in mind that for Lulu, 40% CDR is super important to have as it means you can simply offer 40% more utility to your team. At that point your shields will last 6 seconds and have a 6.12 second cooldown, 48 seconds on your ultimate and 10 seconds on a massive speedbuff.

Simply put, it's fine to build damage but on Lulu support is a lot more effective to use your spells defensively in order to peel rather than offensively - as long as you have at least one fed carry to buff up (which occurs in about 90% of my games I think). This actually goes for Lulu mid/top as well. Also, yes, Lulu support does have some minor scaling issues (most of her skills kinda require AP to be effective late game) going into late game.

Up to plat 3, I always built most of my supports nearly full damage. From plat3 on, I'd judge how my adc performs and decide if he is worth going full support for (he positions well, isn't greedy, etc) or full damage (he's greedy, clumsy, etc). It's my personal approach to supporting.

Issue: ap items that are generally very expensive and your midgame will be mediocre. Solution: build a few cost-efficient ap items.

Morellonomicon is still pretty easy to build, and part of it's build path lets me decide if I'm going full support (by building Mikael's Blessing ) or heavier on the ap side. It gives decent ap, cdr and mana regen.

Haunting Guise is generally another pretty good option because most supports don't have incredible ratios. Alternatively, and much more expensive, Luden's Tempest is also pretty nice on lower ratio champs that can poke, such as Lulu. However, by the time you finish this you won't be dealing incredible damage because the enemy team will should have decent to good Magic Resistance.

Banner of Command is a support item that is highly underrated nowadays. It helps reset pushing lanes without having to move there and, together with a good splitpushing top with Teleport, allows your team to pressure three lanes at once.

Some supports might get Rabadon's Deathcap if they're snowballing because it maximizes their ap ratios on supportive abilities ( Janna's shield, Lulu's shield, ultimate and W movement speed, etc), which means the item will still be useful regardless of the MRes on the enemy team.

A "I'm was a support but screw that" full build, (completed while keeping the spellthief evolution, which you can sell later but that would probably mean a 50 minute game), would vary somewhat like this: Ruby Sightstone Frost Queen's Claim Morellonomicon Sorcerer's Shoes/ Mobility Boots (lulu has W so sorc's or ionian) Rabadon's Deathcap/ Luden's Tempest/ Liandry's Torment/ Banner of Command Void Staff. All of it depending what you're trying to do.

You don't really want damage for Lulu support. You're mostly source of mobility, CC, protection and kiting. Your item build should support the utility even further with items like Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, Sightstone, Ionian Boots of Lucidity etc...

P.S: I would start with a support item + potions

Hey Bluichu!

I think your question is,

"do i want to do damage when i play lulu support or do i want to just provide utility to the team, and if I'm only to provide utility over damage what do i do?"

Sometimes as a player you want to incorporate other skills you have into roles you don't normally play because you know those skills work in other lanes. This is a common theme in solo queue. Lets imagine for a second that you are the best LuLu top in the world. If you were to play your Perfect LuLu top in the support role bottom, you would think your skill would make you a great support LuLu! But this is not so, Support and Top are entirely different roles.

Your instinct to do damage stems from your experience top and mid with LuLu. In some cases damage is strong on a support, example: sona poke combined with ezreal. But in another instance it isn't so strong, example: Sona full damage build against caitlin.

Every game of LoL is situationally different than the one before. So some things that work some games wont work other games.

That being said, If going damage on LuLu is the right choice for your specific game or match up, Than yes! go damage, get a Rabadons and turn everyone purple!

It is up to you to determine what YOU need to do to win YOUR current match up.

For the second part of your question, Playing LuLu or any support to provide the most utility possible is all about the build. In order to build it you need money, and if you aren't scoring kills in lane you aren't getting much money. So to remedy this you can go for gold/10 quints and yellows, support masteries, and support items. note that this will make you either squishier or do way less damage, again choose what will work in your match up.

Now that you have solved your gold issue (if you have one) you can start to itemize for maximum team utility.

LuLu has a single target shield, a single target hp buff, a single target polymorph, and a single target - do you see where im going here. Supports who have single target spells have to itemize differently than say an alistar or a karma, or even a soraka.

Since you cant be aoe supporting your team with your spells, its important to itemize so that you can!

two great utility items for aoe support are:

Talisman of Ascension
Locket of the Iron Solari

Now that you have a few team buffs, lets focus on the single target spells.
Upping the CDR on LuLu will allow you to cast your single target spells more often therefore providing more utility.

Good CDR choices:

Twin shadows
Locket of the Iron Solari
Talisman of Ascension
Ardent Censer

combined with mobility boots and a sight stone and an upgraded sweeper, you should be providing more than enough stuff for your allies to get the job done.

I hope this helps