Nunu & Willump vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Nunu & Willump
based on 1,482 Nunu & Willump vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Alistar
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Nunu & Willump vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Nunu & Willump vs. Alistar counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Alistar
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Alistar.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Alistar.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Alistar build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 47.8% battling Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Alistar as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Alistar counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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