Buff Nunu

RookPusher··2 votes·376 views

I got a survey from Riot this week asking me about a few champs, and at the end it asked me which champs I felt needed an upgrade. My second choice was Nunu, and I feel as if this is obvious to most folks, but he's just good enough to not seem completely useless.

As far as I've seen, unless he's fed more than the other team by a considerable margin, I don't know how Nunu does anything in the late game. I don't mean as a tank/mage/support, I mean I don't see how he is viable in any of those roles. I would guess if you took item 3060 and item 3512 you could work the split pushing, but any champ can do that.

He's a sub-par tank, he only really has one Mage ability, and his ultimate has a considerable amount of problems that really should be address: either make it a used-while-mobile ability, or make him remain immobile but uninterruptible. My argument here isn't to change him dramatically, but right now he seems like an off tank and an off mage.

As an example, I main Maokai. He's technically a mage also, but no one assumes he's a mage, and his mastery ranks reflect that. Nunu on the other hand gets ranks as a support - and that's great. But if we're going to call him a support can we give him a little more in the way of it?

**A small incremental start might be to change his passive so that when he AAs, and is AA'd, he gains a stack of Visionary. Or make lanning minions give him a buff like the jungle creeps do. **

2 Comments

doubleguac2 votes

He's been strong in the past as a control jungler. But mobility creep has taken a lot of the strength out of his ganks.

One good sign for his future: boots of swiftness got nerfed pretty hard. I imagine a lot of people will stop taking them. Their slow-reducing passive was incredibly strong against him. Also, with dragons being so important, he might be a bit more useful moving forward.

I do think he needs a straight-up rework at some point though. He only has two abilities that can interact with enemy champions. His ult is incredibly easy to counter, and doesn't really make sense on his kit. His passive is useless in team fights. Etc.

Elisheva1 votes

Nunu simply takes a different play style than other champions. Fact is, he's over powered with his 1 shot ult, 2 shot snowball, over half hp heal, and an attack speed buff. The only thing he has that is near useless is the attack speed...

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