Azir vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Azir
based on 1,464 Azir vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Nunu & Willump
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Azir vs. Nunu & Willump counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Azir normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Azir or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 54.0% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a great counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Azir does have a much higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is a great counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning 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 stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically racks up much more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Azir versus Nunu & Willump build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 54.0% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Nunu & Willump as Azir, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Azir vs Nunu & Willump counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.0% win rate overall.
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