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Nunu & Willump Build

Jungle Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 23,370 gamesUpdated

50.3%win rate1.0%pick0.6%ban

Who counters Nunu & Willump

Every Jungle matchup for Nunu & Willump, ranked →

How to build Nunu & Willump

Sorcerer's Shoes→Liandry's Torment→Dead Man's Plate→Spirit Visage

Sorcerer's Shoes → Liandry's Torment → Dead Man's Plate → Spirit Visage

56.1% win rate 6% of games 913 games
RunesDominationDark HarvestCheap ShotGrisly MementosRelentless HunterSorceryCelerityWaterwalking30% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Consume
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Biggest Snowball Ever!
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Snowball Barrage
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Absolute Zero
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StartGustwalker HatchlingGustwalker Hatchling
Full Nunu & Willump build →
50.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 51,040 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.3% over 23,370 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.3%at Emerald+
1.0%pick rate
0.6%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 4 last patch
56.0%under 22 min
47.6%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Nunu & Willump champion portraitJ Nunu & WillumpvsHecarim champion portraitJ Hecarim
2 / 8 / 17

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingPlated Steelcaps|Liandry's Torment→Dead Man's Plate→Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEWW
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Nunu & Willump champion portraitJ Nunu & WillumpvsZac champion portraitJ Zac
6 / 4 / 16

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingMercury's Treads|Liandry's Torment→Abyssal Mask→Frozen Heart

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEWWR
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Nunu & Willump champion portraitJ Nunu & WillumpvsJarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IV
2 / 2 / 7

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots|Liandry's Torment

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WQEQQRQEQERE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.2% win rate · 30% of games · 6,724 games
DominationDark HarvestCheap ShotGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
SorceryCelerityWaterwalking
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.1% win rate · 17% of games · 3,718 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakCelerityWaterwalking
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 50.2% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes46%Plated Steelcaps25%Mercury's Treads21%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 49.6% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling90%
9 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Nunu & Willump build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Dead Man's Plate1st
  2. Liandry's Torment2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path57.8% win rate533 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Nunu & Willump →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 23,985 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
45% · 49.6% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
24% · 50.8% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
20% · 50.9% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
6% · 48.9% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 49.8% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
1% · 53.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 50.6% win rate · 516 games
  2. Hextech Rocketbelt›Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 44.4% win rate · 381 games
  3. Stormsurge›Hextech Rocketbelt+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 44.0% win rate · 368 games
  4. Liandry's Torment+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 43.0% win rate · 351 games
  5. Dead Man's Plate›Liandry's Torment+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 41.5% win rate · 316 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Nunu & Willump against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Nunu & Willump's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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