Nunu & Willump vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Nunu & Willump
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Nunu & Willump vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Nunu & Willump vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Nunu & Willump vs. Zilean counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Zilean.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Zilean matchups, Zilean 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 garbage counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually gets less CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Zilean build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Zilean than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 46.8% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zilean 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. Of all the runes players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Zilean fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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