Nunu & Willump vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,597 Nunu & Willump vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Nunu & Willump vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Nunu & Willump against Kayle counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kayle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Kayle
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Kayle?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Kayle, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Kayle.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Kayle.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ 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 terribly counter for Kayle. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often gets a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Kayle build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kayle than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kayle as Nunu & Willump, you 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Kayle battles, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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