Nunu & Willump vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,315 Nunu & Willump vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Nunu & Willump vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Nunu & Willump vs. Irelia matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Irelia.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Irelia.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Irelia build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Irelia than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Irelia as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nunu & Willump vs Irelia fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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