Support Nunu & Willump Build
Support Nunu & Willump build with runes and items. Support Nunu & Willump guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Nunu & Willump build in League of Legends Patch 25.S1.1!
Author: Wrekah
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
Q
E
W
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Support Nunu & Willump Runes
Resolve
Inspiration
Passive
How it works
General
- You're a healer, Harry.
- Even though Nunu & Willump is not typical support, you are gonna support your team very effectively. With heals, shields and buffs:
- Heal summoner spell.
- Guardian and Font of Life runes.
- Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari and Moonstone Renewer and other items.
- Nunu & Willump has +10% Healing in ARAM, which makes all healing effects (Redemption or Font of Life included) extra efficient!
- Nunu & Willump has +20% Shielding in ARAM, which makes all shielding effects (Guardian or Locket of the Iron Solari) it extra efficient!
How to play
General
- Your first rush is Redemption.
- Your second rush can be Locket of the Iron Solari (vs AoE), Moonstone Renewer (sustain).
- Also, Echoes of Helia is pretty good because you can proc it consistently with Font of Life (slow/cc).
- Rush second Locket if your team already doing teamfights or when an enemy team has champions with super aoe damage (example: like Fiddle's ult). Otherwise, get Moonstone Renewer #2. The third item should be whatever you did not buy - Locket of the Iron Solari or Moonstone Renewer. That's your core.
- Another decent item if you have carry/strong bruiser/strong tank is Knight's Vow.
- Try to use summoner spell Heal on cooldown. With Moonstone Renewer, ideally there should be at least two people for maximum healing effect.
- Later in the game, for maximum support - you can sell boots for sixth item.
- You can get items like Ardent Censer (some auto attackers needed) or Staff of Flowing Water. It will be triggered often enough that it will be worth.
- Interesting item is Cryptbloom. If you want to go full healing, you can get it like #4+ item.
Runes
- Guardian is important rune. It is going to provide tons of shielding. Remember that you need to be close to your allies to proc it.
- You can also manipulate it - for example, you can stick to one ally, or avoid some spells that's gonna only waste it.
- You will be triggering Font of Life effect, which will heal your allies. It also chains off Moonstone Renewer!
- Font of Life total healing is not properly calculated in a post-game lobby. Value is bigger in the game vs. what's displayed in statistics. You heal more!
- Another important rule is Cosmic Insight, it reduces cooldown for your active items (so more heals/shielding) and Heal summoner spell.
Redemption
- Try to use Redemption on cooldown, when your allies are missing some health. It is best to use when they are grouped. Especially if you already have Moonstone Renewer, it is best to wait (or ping) until they group together, so you can have them all healed.
- Remember that you can use Redemption for the damage. However, in general, it is not worth it. Keep it to heal your team!
- Be careful when using Redemption while you are dead, and you are about to be respawned. The camera will go to your position, and you can cast it in the spawning pool by mistake. Watch out for bad timing!
Tips and Tricks
Champion
- Consume (Q) heals you more when eating minions. This can be used during fights, when you just want to survive for little longer, then instead of using Q on champion, use it on minion.
- Biggest Snowball Ever! (W) is very reliable tool to insta cc, when enemy champion is using Mark / Snowball summoner on you, or on ally champion
- Snowball Barrage (E) slows and roots and Biggest Snowball Ever! (W) knocks up and stuns. You can combine them together:
- It takes 3 seconds (since first cast) of your Snowball Barrage (E) to root someone. Usually, enemies will try to use cooldown to get away at the last moment. You can chain W just before that, to ensure you root them afterwards
- If you managed to root someone already with your E, wait a little (it depends on level), then use point blank W to prolong CC.
- Nunu combo: you can chain E with R. First slow enemies with E and when you are sure that you root them, start casting R right away for big, sweet damage!
- Flash radius is 425, Nunu's Ultimate is 650 radius, it means when you position on top of enemy champion, he won't be able to escape even with Flash.
Riot
- 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.
Skill Order
- ConsumeQ
- Biggest Snowball Ever!W
- Snowball BarrageE
- Absolute ZeroR
Items
Starting items
Rush this #1
Boots
Core items
Good support items
Situational tanky items
Counter healing
Counter shielding
For the last fight
Example final build