Nunu & Willump vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,406 Nunu & Willump vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Thresh
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.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Nunu & Willump vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Nunu & Willump against Thresh matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Thresh. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Thresh
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Thresh?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Thresh, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Thresh.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Thresh.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Thresh matchups, Thresh 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 bad counter to Thresh. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Thresh during both the early game 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Thresh build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Thresh than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Thresh 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Thresh counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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