Summon Aery adds onto Lulu's utility, providing her with an extra shield and a small bit of extra poke. It's generally the only rune you want to take with Lulu, she's played more as a defensive ambulance and buffer, she wants to be backline protection for her team, so the other two runes are generally useless.

Manaflow Band is the only viable rune in this column for Lulu, it helps with your mana regen - which can quickly ramp up when you're consistently casting your abilities in lane to defend your ally, and poke down your enemy.

Celerity increases Lulu's movement speed, which has good synergy with Whimsy, helping her ward quickly and efficiently, keeping up with her team mates, and making sure she's not late to teamfights. Transcendence is an option with the additional CDR it provides at level 10, and excess CDR is converted to AP, which is always useful for buffing your abilities.

Once again, focusing on an early lead in laning phase, Scorch is your go to rune. It helps give your ADC a little bit more breathing room when poking enemies down, and it's the best rune in this tier for early laning. Gathering Storm is a good option as well, but it focuses more on post 20 minutes - if you have carries such as Ryze, Vayne and Kassadin, who scale high into late game, you might want to consider taking this over Scorch.

Biscuit Delivery is a great rune for sustain. It restores 10% of your missing health and mana, and increases your maximum mana by 50 anytime you consume or sell a biscuit. This is a great rune if you are facing a poke heavy opposition, and it also synergizes well with Manaflow Band. Magical Footwear is the other option here, giving you free starting boots at 12 minutes - reduced by 45s for every takedown. If you're going to be playing aggressively, it can be a nice rune to take, and saves you 300g. Also has an extra +10 movement speed, so good with Celerity.

Cosmic Insight helps to increase the amount of spells you can get out, useful for a support with a heal in her kit. It grants 5% CD, increases your CD cap to 45%, as well as reduces the cool down of both active items and summoner spells by 5%. It's not hard to overcap on CDR, so the extra is not wasted and converted to AP. Good with Transcendence.

A good choice if facing heavy engage comps, or bursty assassins. Can help you live if you get caught out mid - late game as Lulu is extremely squishy.

Revitalize is another main reason for taking Resolve, it increases all our shielding and healing by 5%, and increases the shield on our Help, Pix! when our target is below 40% hp, by an extra 10%.

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Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED These are the cheapest boots in the game, but often the most useful - especially on a support, and has good synergy with Whimsy and Celerity, enabling Lulu to ward efficiently, and keep up with her team. Mercury's Treads > TENACITY/AP RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of CC, or a lot of AP damage, you can trade Mobi's out for these. They offer +25 magic resist, along with reducing the effect of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes by 30%. Ionian Boots of Lucidity > CDR A good choice to take if you need to be getting out extra abilities, and need the extra CDR, although you do generally hit the CDR cap as support, so they do pair well with Transcendence for the extra AP.

Athene's Unholy Grail > DAMAGE/UTILITY/CDR/SUSTAIN Lulu focuses on using her Glitterlance for damage as well as the slow it provides, also Help, Pix! can be cast on enemies for a nice chunk of damage, making Athene's Unholy Grail a decent pickup if you need some extra sustain for your team. You gain CDR and extra AP, giving you a little more damage, and helps with any mana problems.

Redemption > CDR/HP+MANA REGEN/SUSTAIN Redemption offers an aoe heal in an area, adding an aoe health sustain for Lulu's allies, a core pick up on her to increase her utility and sustain. It also offers HP and Mana regen, meaning you can stay in the fights longer, recall less, and you can help out even while dead. It also offers an extra 10% shielding power, which synergizes with your Summon Aery and Help, Pix!.

Ardent Censer > DAMAGE/UTILITY/CDR If you have a team comp that relies heavily on fast auto attacks such as Vayne, Twitch, Kog'Maw etc. Ardent Censer is a great pickup to maximize your carries damage output while shielding them, it also offers you a bit more burst, a small bonus to your movement speed which helps roam to ward, mana sustain and 10% CDR.

Mikael's Crucible > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/UTILITY A good pick when facing an enemy team with hard CC that you need to Cleanse on allies, such as Impale, Dark Binding, Cocoon etc and grants bonus movement speed for 2s after successfully cleansing an ability. Increases your Mana and HP regeneration, and 20% shielding power - good synergy with Summon Aery.

Locket of the Iron Solari > UTILITY/DAMAGE With Locket of the Iron Solari, you gain 30 armor and 60 magic resist, increasing your overall survivability, while providing a shield to your allies upon use - using +20% of your maximum health, which Redemption increases.

Morellonomicon > DAMAGE/UTILITY/SURVIVABILITY If the enemy team has a lot of healing such as a Soraka or Sona, you may want to rush Morellonomicon for the grievous wounds passive it applies. You gain 70 AP to add onto your damage, magic penetration which can help burst through tank threats with AP resist. This is a very niche pick on Lulu as you generally want to leave it for the carries to get, but not all your teams will buy it!

Zeke's Convergence > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/MANA Zeke's is a decent pick up on Lulu as it offers armor and magic resist - increasing her survivability, cooldown reduction and an extra 250 mana. When you cast Wild Growth, you ignite an aoe around you that slows enemies by 20% - giving you an easier escape, while the ally that you have chosen to attach to, their attacks burns enemies for 30% bonus magic damage, increasing their damage output for quicker kills. I generally would take this if you're ahead, but focus on utility first.

You're going to want to take Help, Pix! first, giving you the ability to shield allies, incase of an enemy invade, or used to poke down enemy's during laning phase.
Lulu's laning phase is pretty safe, using Help, Pix! to poke down the opposing enemies, or shielding an ally, or yourself, from incoming damage. The slow on Glitterlance can help slow down an all-in, or a gank from the enemy jungle.

You can speed up your ally with Whimsy for an engage, or you can polymorph an enemy, slowing their movement speed, if your jungle is coming to help your lane out.

You can help push the wave with Glitterlance, and Whimsy on your ADC, giving them bonus attack speed.
You can potentially go for an all-in at level 6, baiting the enemy and then using Wild Growth on your ADC for the turn around kills - or prevent an all-in by doing the same!

Keep your brushes warded, and try to take vision control of the drake pit, Lulu is very squishy, along with most ADCs, so you want to keep good vision around your lane so you can see incoming ganks.






Outside of laning phase, you're going to want to be setting up a lot of Stealth Ward wards around objectives, such as Baron Nashor and the drakes. If your team is ahead, and it is safe to do so, you can set up deep vision in the enemies jungle, allowing yourself and your team to get important picks, that allow you to take the previously mentioned objectives.

You want to mostly take your focus from poke to utility during this stage of the game, even when ahead. You will want to focus peeling your ADC from the enemies main damage threat with Whimsy, or using it to buff your main damage threat. Keep your team healthy with Redemption, and you can disrupt a teamfight, and enemy channels, with Wild Growth. You want to be using Wild Growth on either your engaging tank that's taking the brunt of the damage, or if your ADC needs peeling, increasing their survivability, disrupting enemies around them, and potentially turning the fight in your favour.

Whimsy and Help, Pix! both apply Ardent Censer's buff, as well as Summon Aery, use this to your advantage, you must make the choice between buffing your allies, and increasing their movement speed, or polymorphing the enemy to reduce their damage.

Enemy raid bosses such as Nasus can be completely shut down with a well timed Whimsy, or you can interrupt a Katarina's Death Lotus, removing a lot of her damage, and hopefully netting your team an easy kill, and an easy teamfight win.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times.

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