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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stats shown here show several valuable Nunu & Willump vs. Veigar counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Veigar..
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Veigar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Veigar, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Veigar.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Veigar.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter to Veigar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Veigar.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Veigar 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 performed significantly better versus Veigar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 46.5% when countering Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Veigar as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Veigar LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Veigar as Nunu & Willump are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.