Nunu & Willump vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,092 Nunu & Willump vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Nunu & Willump vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Nunu & Willump vs. Sylas counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sylas. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Sylas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Sylas
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Sylas?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when facing off against Sylas, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter to Sylas.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Sylas.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champion 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 trash counter for Sylas. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Sylas. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Sylas build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Sylas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Sylas with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sylas as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Sylas clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sylas as Nunu & Willump are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.