Nunu & Willump vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,170 Nunu & Willump vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Nunu & Willump vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Nunu & Willump vs. Leona counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between this set of champions. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona..
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Leona
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Leona.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Leona.
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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 Leona 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 44.6% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Leona as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Leona counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.6% winrate overall.
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