Alistar vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Alistar
based on 1,482 Alistar vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Nunu & Willump
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Alistar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Alistar versus Nunu & Willump counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Alistar or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Nunu & Willump, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Alistar into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Alistar 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 teamfights.
Alistar is an above average counter to Nunu & Willump. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Alistar versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Nunu & Willump than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nunu & Willump as Alistar, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Alistar vs Nunu & Willump fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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