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.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Nunu & Willump against Lee Sin counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Lee Sin.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Lee Sin.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Lee Sin matchups, Lee Sin is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a decent counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Lee Sin.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Lee Sin build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Lee Sin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Lee Sin as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use 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 builds players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Lee Sin clashes, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Nunu & Willump are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu above.