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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stats shown here show several influential Nunu & Willump vs. Rengar matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rengar. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Rengar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Rengar, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Rengar.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Rengar, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Rengar.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Rengar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Rengar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rengar. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Rengar build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Rengar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Rengar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Rengar as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Rengar counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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