Nunu & Willump vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Nunu & Willump
based on 4,290 Nunu & Willump vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Nunu & Willump vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Nunu & Willump against Kayn matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between these two champs. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayn..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayn. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Kayn
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Kayn?
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 Kayn, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Kayn.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Kayn, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Kayn.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Kayn matchups, Kayn 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 somewhat poor counter to Kayn. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kayn. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Kayn build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Kayn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.1% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Kayn as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Kayn fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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