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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Nunu & Willump vs. Warwick matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Warwick. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Warwick, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Warwick.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Warwick.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Warwick.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Warwick during both the lane 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 tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often picks up less CS as Warwick. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Warwick build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Warwick than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Warwick with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Warwick as Nunu & Willump, you 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 Warwick matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Warwick as Nunu & Willump are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.