Brand vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Brand
based on 5,571 Brand vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Nunu & Willump
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some vital Brand versus Nunu & Willump counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Brand typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Brand or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 54.5% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a great counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Brand does have a much higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Nunu & Willump.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Brand is a great counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically picks up more CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Brand versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Nunu & Willump than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 54.5% when countering Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nunu & Willump as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Brand vs Nunu & Willump counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.5% win rate overall.
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