Nunu & Willump vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nunu & Willump
based on 810 Nunu & Willump vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Nunu & Willump vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Nunu & Willump vs. Kalista counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nunu & Willump into Kalista.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Kalista matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a good counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically gets a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Kalista build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kalista than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 52.2% when playing against Kalista with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kalista as Nunu & Willump, you should equip 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 chose for Nunu & Willump vs Kalista matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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