Nunu easy to ballance with one change

CoolKnightST··8 votes·657 views

So riot doesn't have time todo a compleet rework for Nunu. Than why not fix him with a mini-rework limited to one ability:

#E - Ice Blast ACTIVE: Nunu throws a snowball (linair skillshot) to it's target (hell you can even use the summoner 39 animation for it if your lazy)

  • Monster/Minion: Is now like rootcaller (basicly a non agro mark dash), your next basic attack will now also deal bonus damage to the monster
  • Champions: Similar to the old snowball but on a higher cooldown. Hitting the snowball will slow the enemy. Their is a new effect added however. Now the next auto attack dealed by a enemy champion will stun the target (ice block animation) briefly.

So why this would help him:

  • E now gives the option to use it as a gap closer or as a lockdown tool. You could for example E to a minion to setup a good ult.
  • Similar to Ivern his counter jungling will go up. But in return he will lose out some of his damage by using this utility. A good tradeoff.
  • Offcourse his E will now have longer range what would allow him to catch targets offguard. It provides a lot of zoning since you never known where he's aiming for. Is it one of the carries or is it a minion where he can use to engage on you. With this mindset people will litterly start soaking the snowball for the treat of the engage.

With one less skillshot in his kit and more uses on it wouldn't this be a good tempory fix for ballancing him.

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Dead flag blues6 votes

Nunu is the worst designed champ, even his face is ugly as hell and is just saying "I'm a troll champ, call me Disco Nunu" Nunu Nunu Nunu Nunu Nunu Nunu

He needs a full VGU / Rework

hhaavviikk1 votes

wait so is his E a skillshot now or not? if it's a skillshot maybe he would be too unreliable? I don't like his E being a point & click but when I look at his kit his E is the only reliable damage he has so if it gets turned into a skillshot it may instead makes him very weak.

Lios Ashenblade1 votes

last I checked its still point and click, and it is basically his only damage lol, if they want to get rid of the point and click snowball, they would have to basically completely rework nunu, since he would have essentially nothing, I mean he has an ult that takes a year to channel and can be easily interrupted I guess...or yeti AA head butts, I am a fan of nunu, I was playing him when he was "bad" and was sitting at like 30% win rate, and still doing well with him as a support.

I think NOW, he has a lot of room to shift the meta around if your team wants, since you can go AP duo bot lane, tried it with a teemo and a xerath, it was pretty strong

hhaavviikk1 votes

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last I checked its still point and click, and it is basically his only damage lol, if they want to get rid of the point and click snowball, they would have to basically completely rework nunu, since he would have essentially nothing, I mean he has an ult that takes a year to channel and can be easily interrupted I guess...or yeti AA head butts, I am a fan of nunu, I was playing him when he was "bad" and was sitting at like 30% win rate, and still doing well with him as a support.

I think NOW, he has a lot of room to shift the meta around if your team wants, since you can go AP duo bot lane, tried it with a teemo and a xerath, it was pretty strong

ah I meant if it's reworked like the OP suggest would it still be point & click, he says ''Nunu throws a snowball (linair skillshot) to it's target'' linear skillshot'' makes me think it's a skillshot but then he says ''to it's target'' making me think it's a point & click

I agree with you, without point & click E he does seem quite bad since Q is only used in the jungle/for sustain and W provides no damage per say

Lios Ashenblade1 votes

basically, if they ended up making it a skillshot it would get a power spike actually, probably even an AOE

CoolKnightST1 votes

He's actually very similar to TahmKench now since his Q now provides him onhit damage. And this might work out with the glacial rune. Keep in mind that Nunu is a Warden (probally hybrid enchanter) and not a Vanguard like Zac Rammus Amumu Gragas Malphite Maokai Nautilus Ornn. He's actually the only competive Warden right now. Since this are the Wardens that are left in the jungle: TahmKench Shen Poppy. I don't think it's a good idea to change him into a catcher (enchanter hybrid) like Ivern.

Wardens are defensive tanks and are not exactly taken for their damage. They are used for peel and that's the direction Nunu needs to go.

Mawootad1 votes

Nunu doesn't feel like he needs any more buffs, but if he were to get anything higher base move speed so that he can get into and out of the enemy jungle a bit safer would be probably the best and easiest change Riot could make.

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