Thresh vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Thresh
based on 3,406 Thresh vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Nunu & Willump
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Thresh versus Nunu & Willump counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nunu & Willump..
Thresh usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Thresh or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually wins when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a good counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Thresh 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, Thresh has a lot 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Thresh is a good counter for Nunu & Willump. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Nunu & Willump build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nunu & Willump as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Thresh vs Nunu & Willump clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
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