Janna vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Janna
based on 2,269 Janna vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nunu & Willump
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Janna versus Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nunu & Willump. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Janna or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 54.9% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Janna does have a much higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Nunu & Willumpas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Janna is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Janna is a great counter to Nunu & Willump. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Janna versus Nunu & Willump build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 54.9% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Nunu & Willump as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Nunu & Willump face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.9% winrate overall.
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