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.
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
The stats shown on this page show several significant Nunu & Willump vs. Nami matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Nami, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Nami.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate compared to Nami, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Nami.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter for Nami. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Nami.
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nami. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nami than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 47.0% battling Nami with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Nami as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Nami LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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