Nunu & Willump vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,556 Nunu & Willump vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Nunu & Willump vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Nunu & Willump against Xerath counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xerath..
Nunu & Willump often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Xerath. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Xerath
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Xerath?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Xerath, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Xerath.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Xerath, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Xerath.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ 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 Xerath. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Xerath 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often accumulates a lot less CS as Xerath. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Xerath build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Xerath with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Xerath as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Xerath LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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