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.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Nunu & Willump vs. Anivia matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in deaths.
Nunu & Willump often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Anivia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Anivia, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Anivia.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower winrate than Anivia, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Anivia.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter to Anivia. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Anivia.
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often picks up a lot less CS as Anivia. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Anivia build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Anivia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 44.6% battling Anivia with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Anivia as Nunu & Willump, you 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 rune builds players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Anivia matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.6% winrate overall.
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