Nunu & Willump vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,269 Nunu & Willump vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Nunu & Willump vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Nunu & Willump against Janna matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Janna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Janna
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Janna, with a 45.1% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower winrate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Janna.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Janna during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Janna. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Janna build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Janna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Janna as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Janna counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.1% winrate overall.
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