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.
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stat comparisons shown here show several strategic Nunu & Willump against Orianna counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
Nunu & Willump typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually wins when taking on Orianna, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a great counter to Orianna.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nunu & Willump into Orianna.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Orianna matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a great counter for Orianna. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Orianna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Orianna during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Orianna. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need 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 Orianna build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Orianna than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Orianna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Orianna 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Orianna counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.8% winrate overall.
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