Tristana vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Tristana
based on 3,145 Tristana vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Nunu & Willump
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Win Against Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Tristana vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Tristana against Nunu & Willump matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nunu & Willump..
Tristana usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Tristana or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a good counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Tristana does have a higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Tristana into Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, Tristana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Tristana is an above average counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game 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 presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana often accumulates much more CS as Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Nunu & Willump than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Nunu & Willump as Tristana, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Tristana vs Nunu & Willump clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
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