Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Rek'Sai
based on 489 Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Nunu & Willump
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Rek'Sai versus Nunu & Willump matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Rek'Sai normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when playing against Nunu & Willump, with a 43.6% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower winrate than Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Rek'Sai into Nunu & Willump.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rek'Sai is a trash counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rek'Sai against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 43.6% when countering Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Nunu & Willump as Rek'Sai, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Nunu & Willump fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.6% winrate overall.
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