Guide · Jungle

Nunu & Willump Guide

the Boy and His Yeti

Tank

Mage

Tier B Jungle

Nunu & Willump, the Boy and His Yeti, is a tank and mage champion of medium difficulty. Across our 306 analysed ranked games, Nunu & Willump is mostly played in the Jungle (80% of its games), and more rarely in Mid (20%), with a 50.4% win rate in that role: tier B among Jungle champions (#29 of 48, ranked by win rate). Nunu & Willump's damage is mostly magic (89%): magic resistance items are therefore effective against this champion. Win rate stays steady whatever the game length (47.9% to 50.3%): a reliable pick in every phase of the game.

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Average KDA

5.0 / 5.7 / 12.1

ratio 3.0

Damage / min

537

CS / min

6.3

Gold / min

414

Kill participation

57%

Vision / min

0.83

Averages measured over 244 Jungle games played with Nunu & Willump, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Written guide · based on the official ability texts

Nunu & Willump are a tank-mage duo: Nunu raises the attack and movement speed of Willump and a nearby ally, and Willump's attacks hurt the enemies near the target. Consume heals, Biggest Snowball Ever! grows as it rolls and knocks up, Snowball Barrage roots those it hits, and Absolute Zero creates a blizzard.

The engage

When: An enemy is far away.

Biggest Snowball Ever! damages and knocks up, Snowball Barrage damages and Willump roots the champions hit, Consume bites while healing you.

The area ultimate

When: Enemies are grouped.

Absolute Zero creates a blizzard that slows and deals heavy damage at the end of the spell: stay in place to channel it.

See all 3 Nunu & Willump combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Consume bites a minion, a monster or a champion and heals you. Biggest Snowball Ever! grows and speeds up: the longer it rolls, the more effective it is.

Common mistakes

Casting the ultimate with no protection during its duration.
Not letting the snowball roll long enough.
Forgetting your ally: Nunu raises their speeds.

Riot's official tips for playing Nunu & Willump

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.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Spirit Visage, Dead Man's Plate, and Liandry's Torment (12 games, 83.3% win rate).

Spirit Visage

Dead Man's Plate

Liandry's Torment

12 games · 83.3%

Skill order

Max order : Q > E > W62.9% · 35 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q	●			●	●		●		●
W		●												●	●
E			●					●		●		●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 42 games).

Starting items

Gustwalker Hatchling59.3% · 27 games

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3877 gold, 65 CS, 3690 XP. At 15 min: 5934 gold, 96 CS, 6184 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite51.3% · 236 games

Most-played runes

Stormraider's Surge + Precision

52.9% · 51 games

Primary tree · Sorcery

Axiom Arcanist55%

Celerity57%

Waterwalking98%

Secondary tree · Precision

Legend: Haste100%

Triumph100%

Shards

Attack speed51%

Adaptive force92%

Health scaling94%

Electrocute + Sorcery

53.1% · 49 games

Primary tree · Domination

Cheap Shot100%

Grisly Mementos78%

Relentless Hunter96%

Secondary tree · Sorcery

Waterwalking90%

Celerity82%

Shards

Ability haste76%

Adaptive force53%

Health scaling71%

Dark Harvest + Sorcery

48.8% · 43 games

Primary tree · Domination

Cheap Shot100%

Grisly Mementos91%

Relentless Hunter91%

Secondary tree · Sorcery

Celerity95%

Waterwalking86%

Shards

Adaptive force95%

Adaptive force98%

Health scaling93%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Nunu & Willump's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team49.2% · 61 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Liandry's Torment 53.6% ▲

Hextech Rocketbelt 47.8%

Dead Man's Plate 61.5%

Kaenic Rookern 72.7%

Sunfire Aegis 60.0%

The item that stands out most is Liandry's Torment: 53.6% win rate, +4 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team57.4% · 68 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Liandry's Torment 57.1% ▲

Hextech Rocketbelt 51.8%

Dead Man's Plate 81.2%

Thornmail 64.3%

Frozen Heart 57.1%

Sunfire Aegis 66.7%

The item that stands out most is Liandry's Torment: 57.1% win rate, +7 points versus its usual win rate.

Balanced enemy team47.0% · 115 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Liandry's Torment 45.3% ▼

Hextech Rocketbelt 54.0%

Dead Man's Plate 64.0% ▼

Sunfire Aegis 43.8%

Thornmail 40.0%

Frozen Heart 66.7%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Counters and matchups

How to play 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.

Riot's official tips.

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Nunu & Willump's matchups.

Nunu & Willump Jungle: what our games say

Laning phase against the Jungle average

Measure	Nunu & Willump	Jungle average	Gap
Gold at 10 min	3877	4023	−146
CS at 10 min	65	69	−4
XP at 10 min	3690	3898	−207
Gold at 15 min	5934	6322	−388
CS at 15 min	96	106	−10
XP at 15 min	6184	6602	−418

Measured over 42 Nunu & Willump games with a timeline; the average covers 69 champions played Jungle in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

short under 25 min47.9 %71 games

medium-length 25 to 35 min50.3 %153 games

Best result: medium-length (25 to 35 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.