Nunu & Willump vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,025 Nunu & Willump vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Nunu & Willump vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Nunu & Willump vs. Katarina counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Katarina. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Katarina
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Katarina, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Katarina.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Katarina, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Katarina.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter for Katarina. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Katarina during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Katarina. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Katarina build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Katarina as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Katarina face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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