Nunu & Willump vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Nunu & Willump
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Nunu & Willump vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Naafiri
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Nunu & Willump versus Naafiri matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Naafiri. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Naafiri. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Naafiri, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Naafiri.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Naafiri, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Naafiri.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a garbage counter for Naafiri. Focus 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 Naafiri.
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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 Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Naafiri. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Naafiri build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Naafiri than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Naafiri with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Naafiri as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players 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 players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Naafiri counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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