Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some significant Nunu & Willump versus Ahri counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Ahri. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Ahri, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Ahri.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Ahri, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Ahri.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a trash counter for Ahri. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often picks up a lot less CS as Ahri. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Ahri build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Ahri than with most other common builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Ahri as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Ahri fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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