Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Nunu & Willump
based on 1,181 Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Nunu & Willump against Kassadin counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kassadin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Kassadin, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Kassadin.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually accumulates a lot less CS as Kassadin. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Kassadin build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Kassadin than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Kassadin with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Kassadin as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Kassadin face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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