Zoe vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Zoe
based on 1,129 Zoe vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Nunu & Willump
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Zoe versus Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Zoe or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a poor counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, Zoe also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often accumulates much more CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zoe versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nunu & Willump as Zoe, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zoe vs Nunu & Willump clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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