Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Nunu & Willump
based on 1,622 Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Nunu & Willump vs. Illaoi counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Illaoi. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a trash counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Illaoi build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Illaoi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Illaoi as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Illaoi matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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