Ryze vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Ryze
based on 778 Ryze vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Nunu & Willump
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Advice to Win Against Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Ryze vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Ryze in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some critical Ryze versus Nunu & Willump counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Ryze typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ryze and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Ryze or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually fairs equally well when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes an ok counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Ryze does have a higher winrate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ryze is a decent counter to Nunu & Willump. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ryze in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze often accumulates much more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 50.9% battling Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Nunu & Willump as Ryze, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ryze vs Nunu & Willump LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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