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.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Nunu & Willump versus Hecarim matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hecarim..
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when taking on Hecarim, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Hecarim.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher winrate than Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Hecarim.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a decent counter for Hecarim. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Hecarim.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Hecarim. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Hecarim build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Hecarim than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Hecarim with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Hecarim as Nunu & Willump, you should take 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 sets we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Hecarim battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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