Lulu

Few champions unsettle an opponent’s game plan quite like Lulu. Mostly played as a support with the occasional mid lane appearance, this enchanter seldom wins fights through her own damage. Instead, she changes what her teammates can do: an ally attacks faster and lasts longer, while the enemy carry is abruptly reduced to a harmless critter.

Her early game is more aggressive than a typical support’s. Pix, her faerie companion, fires homing bolts whenever she attacks. Help, Pix! lets her send him onto an enemy to chip away at them or onto an ally to shield that ally and boost their attacks. Glitterlance, launched by both Lulu and Pix, deals damage and heavily slows everything it passes through, so it works for poking and for peeling. Whimsy is the flexible card in her kit: it can grant an ally movement speed to become a diving threat, or polymorph an enemy so they can neither attack nor cast.

The button that stops assassins

Wild Growth is what makes her a teamfight force. It enlarges an ally, launches nearby enemies into the air, grants a large amount of bonus health and leaves behind a slowing aura. Used on a diving bruiser, it opens the fight; used on a carry who is being jumped, it ranks among the strongest protective spells in the game. Her weaknesses mirror her strengths: she is fragile, leans heavily on cooldowns and becomes a bystander when her carries fall behind. She suits players who enjoy reactive, attentive support play, where the payoff is a well-timed polymorph rather than a takedown.