Zed vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Zed
based on 3,087 Zed vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nunu & Willump
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Zed against Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Zed or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually wins when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Zed does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Zed is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your play 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 Zed against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually gets much more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed versus Nunu & Willump build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Nunu & Willump than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Nunu & Willump as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Nunu & Willump counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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