Nunu & Willump
Hardest matchups for Nunu & Willump in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Rammus, 
Rek'Sai, 
Zac. Easiest: 
Locke, 
Qiyana, 
Jayce.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into Nunu & WillumpOn the pro tier list
Nunu & Willump on patch 16.22
- Jungle51.9%#11 of 74A5,458 games
- Mid51.7%#18 of 91A1,202 games
- steady since 16.21
Nunu & Willump’s main role on patch 16.22 is Jungle: a 51.9% win rate across 5,458 Emerald games, #11 of 74 Jungle champions on the tier list (grade A), picked in 2.2% of games. Nunu & Willump is also played Mid: a 51.7% win rate across 1,202 games, #18 of 91. Since patch 16.21, Nunu & Willump Jungle has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 39,632 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle76% of its games | B | 50.1%50.2% raw ±0.8 | 14,418 | 2.1%0.5% banned | 53.1%42.2% first time |
| Mid16% of its games | C | 48.7%48.3% raw ±1.8 | 3,031 | 0.4%0.5% banned | 51.2%45.5% first time |
| Support7% of its games | D | 46.7%44.3% raw ±2.7 | 1,299 | 0.2%0.5% banned | 49.6%45.7% first time |
| Top1% of its games | too few games | 47.6%38.0% raw ±6.3 | 242 | 0.0%0.5% banned | 50.9%46.2% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 49.4%37.5% raw ±14.1 | 48 | 0.0%0.5% banned | 51.4%46.9% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Nunu & Willump’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Nunu & Willump, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Nunu & Willump
Lane leads and team bans
What Nunu & Willump’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Nunu & Willump than the other team does in the same games (121,641 games). The other team banned before Nunu & Willump was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Nunu & Willump was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Nunu & Willump is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AP sustained
50.7%10,613 games - Tank
53.3%1,701 games - AP burst
50.8%1,635 games - Enchanter
51.8%35 games - Mana stack
51.2%7 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Nunu & Willump does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
15,412 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite50.0% · 15,157 games
ElectrocuteDomination + Sorcery · 52.0%
Cheap Shot · Sixth Sense · Relentless Hunter · Celerity · WaterwalkingShards: Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Start: Gustwalker Hatchling · 52.1%
Key items: Liandry's Torment → Dead Man's Plate · 50.4%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 53.4%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite50.0%15,157 games · 98% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
- Electrocute + Sorcery52.0%1,844 games · 12% pick rate · same players: +1.8 pts vs the usualRecommended
Stormraider's Surge + Precision51.3%3,210 games · 21% pick rate · same players: +1.5 pts vs the usual
First Strike + Sorcery51.3%508 games · 3.3% pick rate · same players: +0.8 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Aftershock + Sorcery53.8%805 games · 5.2% pick rate · same players: +0.4 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Electrocute
- Cheap Shot51.1%98% take it
- Sixth Sense54.1%32% take it
Grisly Mementos49.6%66% take it
- Relentless Hunter51.1%90% take it
Treasure Hunter51.7%5.2% take it
Ultimate Hunter52.1%4.4% take it
- Celerity51.5%93% take it
- Waterwalking51.6%92% take it
Axiom Arcanist54.1%5.5% take it
Gathering Storm49.8%2.8% take it
Nimbus Cloak55.6%2.5% take it
- Ability Haste52.9%20% take it
- Adaptive Force48.9%43% take it
- Attack Speed49.7%37% take it
- Adaptive Force49.6%87% take it
- Move Speed51.0%9.0% take it
- Health Scaling56.4%3.8% take it
- Health Scaling49.9%89% take it
- Health52.5%7.3% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist47.6%3.6% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Nunu & Willump’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Nunu & Willump’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Nunu & Willump does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Nunu & Willump wins 41.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 53.0%. That gap ranks it 3 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 86K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Nunu & Willump in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
Nunu & Willump has not been played in the major leagues this season.
How much knowing Nunu & Willump pays
Players on their Mastery band win 11.5 points more on Nunu & Willump than first-timers do: #3 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Nunu & Willump players win 53.0%: #37 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 54.1%, and is half-way up by ~40K points.
Nunu & WillumpDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Nunu & Willump ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Nidalee, Rengar, Kindred.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.