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 coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Nunu & Willump versus Dr. Mundo counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Dr. Mundo. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Dr. Mundo. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Dr. Mundo, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Dr. Mundo.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Dr. Mundo, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Dr. Mundo.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter to Dr. Mundo. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Dr. Mundo.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Dr. Mundo during both the lane 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 stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Dr. Mundo. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Dr. Mundo build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Dr. Mundo than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Dr. Mundo with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Dr. Mundo as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Dr. Mundo LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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