Nunu & Willump vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,087 Nunu & Willump vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Nunu & Willump vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Nunu & Willump versus Zed counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zed. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when trying to fight Zed, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter for Zed.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Zed, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Zed.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Zed. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nunu & Willump versus Zed build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Zed as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Zed counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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