Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Illaoi
based on 1,622 Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Nunu & Willump
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Illaoi versus Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Illaoi typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Illaoi into Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is an above average counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often accumulates much more CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Nunu & Willump build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Nunu & Willump than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nunu & Willump as Illaoi, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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