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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some important Nunu & Willump versus LeBlanc matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than LeBlanc. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than LeBlanc. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against LeBlanc, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for LeBlanc.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate compared to LeBlanc, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into LeBlanc.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs LeBlanc matchups, LeBlanc is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter for LeBlanc. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against LeBlanc.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically racks up a lot less CS as LeBlanc. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus LeBlanc build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs LeBlanc than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.6% battling LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating LeBlanc as Nunu & Willump, you should equip 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 combinations players chose for Nunu & Willump vs LeBlanc counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Nunu & Willump are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.