Nunu & Willump vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Nunu & Willump
based on 6,126 Nunu & Willump vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Nunu & Willump vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Nunu & Willump against Jax matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jax. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Jax
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Jax, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Jax.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Jax, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Jax.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a trash counter to Jax. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Jax during both the lane 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 stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually gets a lot less CS relative to Jax. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Jax build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Jax than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 47.8% battling Jax with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Jax as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nunu & Willump vs Jax fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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