Leona vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Leona
based on 3,170 Leona vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Nunu & Willump
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Leona versus Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Leona usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Leona or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 55.4% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, Leona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Leona 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 team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nunu & Willump. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Leona versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 55.4% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nunu & Willump as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Leona vs Nunu & Willump clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.4% win rate overall.
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