Nunu & Willump vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Nunu & Willump
based on 778 Nunu & Willump vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Nunu & Willump vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Nunu & Willump vs. Ryze matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Ryze?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ryze, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Ryze.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Ryze. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Ryze build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Ryze 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Ryze battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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