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.
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several vital Nunu & Willump against Ekko counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between this set of champs. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ekko. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ekko. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Ekko, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Ekko.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Ekko, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Ekko.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ekko. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a much 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 terribly counter to Ekko. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Ekko.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Ekko during both the early game 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 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.
Nunu & Willump on average racks up a lot less CS as Ekko. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Ekko build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Ekko than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Ekko with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ekko as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Ekko LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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