Nunu & Willump vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,910 Nunu & Willump vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Graves Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Graves as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Graves
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.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Nunu & Willump vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Nunu & Willump against Graves counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Graves
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Graves.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often racks up less CS as Graves. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Graves build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Graves as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nunu & Willump vs Graves counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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