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.
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Nunu & Willump vs. Vi matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vi..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Vi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Vi, with a 44.8% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Vi.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower win rate compared to Vi, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Vi.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter for Vi. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Vi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Vi. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Vi build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Vi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 44.8% battling Vi with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Vi as Nunu & Willump, you should equip 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 combinations we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Vi face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% win rate overall.
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