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.
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Nunu & Willump against Nasus matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nasus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nasus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Nasus.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Nasus.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter for Nasus. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Nasus.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Nasus build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Nasus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Nasus with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Nasus as Nunu & Willump, you should use 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 Nasus battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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