How to beat Nunu & Willump

Common role: Jungle

A snowball-rolling tank who controls objectives and eats your camps.

What makes Nunu & Willump dangerous

Nunu rolls a growing snowball that knocks up and travels terrain, eats jungle camps and champions with true-damage bites, and channels an ultimate that deals massive damage and shields him. His objective control is the best in the game — he devours dragons and barons through your smite.

How to play against Nunu & Willump

• 1Sidestep the snowball around walls — hitting terrain or dodging it wastes his gank.
• 2Interrupt his ultimate channel with any hard CC — it's his whole teamfight.
• 3Contest objectives with damage, not just smite: his Q bite out-secures.
• 4He falls off hard — survive early ganks and out-scale.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Falls off significantly in the mid-late game.
• ✓The snowball is loud and visible — ward and it telegraphs every gank.
• ✓His ult channel is interruptible by any hard CC.
• ✓Low damage without the snowball hit.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Nunu & Willump's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Appel de Freljord

  Nunu augmente les vitesses d'attaque et de déplacement de Willump et d'un allié proche, et les attaques de base de Willump infligent des dégâts aux ennemis proches de la cible.

  Strong: his and Willump's attacks empower each other for objective melting. Weak: it's PvE-oriented — in a straight duel he's weak without ult.

• Q
  Voracité

  Willump mord un sbire, un monstre ou un champion ennemi, lui infligeant d'importants dégâts et récupérant des PV.

  Strong: a true-damage bite that heals and out-secures objectives. Weak: predictable — burn objectives fast outside his bite window or zone him first.

• W
  Boule de neige géante !

  Willump crée une boule de neige qui grossit et accélère à mesure qu'il la fait rouler. La boule de neige blesse et projette en l'air les ennemis.

  Strong: a growing snowball that knocks up and crosses terrain. Weak: loud, visible and steerable — sidestep or hug walls; a hit terrain wastes it.

• E
  Rafale de boules de neige

  Nunu lance plusieurs boules de neige qui blessent les ennemis. Ensuite, Willump immobilise les champions et les grands monstres qui ont été touchés par une boule de neige.

  Strong: snowball volleys slow and eventually root you. Weak: short range — the root needs you to STAY close; just walk out.

• R
  Zéro absolu

  Nunu et Willump créent un puissant blizzard dans une zone, ce qui ralentit les ennemis et inflige d'importants dégâts à la fin du sort.

  Strong: a channelled AoE nuke with a huge shield — deadly in chokes. Weak: ANY hard CC interrupts it; the damage needs the full channel.

Itemization

Vision defeats the snowball; hard CC defeats the ult. Don't 50/50 objectives — burn them fast before his bite window.

This guide covers Nunu & Willump's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.