Nunu & Willump vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,626 Nunu & Willump vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Nunu & Willump vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Nunu & Willump versus Varus counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Varus. This observation is largely caused by 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 Varus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Varus, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Varus.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate compared to Varus, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Varus.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion 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 Varus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Varus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Varus build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Varus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Varus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Varus as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take 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 used for Nunu & Willump vs Varus counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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