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.
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
The stats provided here show some valuable Nunu & Willump against Zyra counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra..
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Zyra.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Zyra matchups, Zyra 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 teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a garbage counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Zyra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often racks up less CS relative to Zyra. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Zyra build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 44.6% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Zyra as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should equip 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 Zyra clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.6% win rate overall.
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