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.
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Nunu & Willump against Gragas counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gragas..
Nunu & Willump usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Gragas, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Gragas.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Gragas, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Gragas.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Gragas.
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gragas. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Gragas build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Gragas with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Gragas 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Gragas battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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