Katarina vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Katarina
based on 3,025 Katarina vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nunu & Willump
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Katarina against Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nunu & Willump. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when playing against Nunu & Willump, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Nunu & Willumpas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets much more CS as Nunu & Willump. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina versus Nunu & Willump build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Nunu & Willump than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Nunu & Willump as Katarina, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Nunu & Willump LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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