Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Kai'Sa
based on 3,566 Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Nunu & Willump
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Kai'Sa vs. Nunu & Willump counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often racks up much more CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Nunu & Willump build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Nunu & Willump as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kai'Sa vs Nunu & Willump LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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