Nunu & Willump vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Nunu & Willump
based on 1,802 Nunu & Willump vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Nunu & Willump vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown here feature several important Nunu & Willump versus Gwen counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gwen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Gwen. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Gwen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when taking on Gwen, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Gwen.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate compared to Gwen, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Gwen.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Gwen. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Gwen 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically gets a lot less CS as Gwen. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Gwen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Gwen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Gwen with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Gwen 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 runes players used for Nunu & Willump vs Gwen fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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