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.
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Nunu & Willump against Rammus matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rammus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rammus..
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rammus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rammus, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Rammus.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher win rate compared to Rammus, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Rammus.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Rammus matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a decent counter to Rammus. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Rammus.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often gets a similar amount of CS as Rammus. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy 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 abilities 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 surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Rammus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Rammus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rammus as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Rammus counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rammus as Nunu & Willump are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.