Nunu & Willump vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,451 Nunu & Willump vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Nunu & Willump vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Nunu & Willump against Malphite counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite..
Nunu & Willump typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Malphite
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Malphite, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Malphite.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate compared to Malphite, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Malphite.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually gets a lot less CS as Malphite. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Malphite build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Malphite than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.6% battling Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Malphite as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use 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 builds that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Malphite battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malphite as Nunu & Willump are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.