Nunu and his Q

Maxwell5132·Mar 15, 2014·3 votes·809 views

Now I love Nunu, he is an amazing jungler and god help you if he decides to take a detour through your jungle. But his Q I feel could be changed, currently Nunu has only two damaging spells, his E and his ult which is nice but if you're caught that's not helpful. I feel his Q should do regular magic damage to champions, it doesn't even have to heal him but I feel his Q should be there in case he needs it, if he can take a chomp out of baron I feel he can take a chomp out of that Katarina at mid.

Also this would help his ganking potentional, he walks into a lane E's the champion then takes a bite. It would make Nunu much more viable. Please Riot just think about it.

7 Comments

PZergMar 15, 20142 votes

I think that would just change the whole characteristic of nunu. He is a supportish jungler and a buff controller. If Q were to do dmg that would mean the dmg to minions would have to be balanced out which changes his dynamic with buff control. During ganks E is not only dmg but for slow and his W is to speed up and help the laner do more dmg. Ult is similar, to zone and slow. Nunu is not the popular jungler these days who does everything, but I still think his kit is useful and balanced to certain extent.

Maxwell5132Mar 15, 20141 votes

It would not change his characteristic look at all the other junglers, Hecarim, Amumu, Jarvan, Elise, Lee Sin. All of those champions have abilities to clear the jungle AND succeed in ganks, Nunu only has two damaging abilities as I stated and even then his E at low levels has a long enough cooldown that it makes a difference when it's your only damaging ability.

FFirebranddMar 17, 20141 votes

The damage to minions wouldn't necessarily need to be changed, his Q could just become like Cho's ult, which does 1k to minions/monsters and 300/475/650 to champs.

Kyleman143Mar 15, 20141 votes

I like this idea a lot because i do love nunu but i have to agree that unless you can land a good ult with him you do no damage at all

PhoenixSlayer13Mar 15, 20141 votes

I've always found it strange that you can't target champions with Nunu's Q. Granted, it would have to be quite a bit weaker than the version used on creeps, but it would definitely assist with his options.

Original JagoMar 15, 20141 votes

Agreed 100% all Nunu can do is use E then kite away until the cooldown is back up then E again etc..

FFirebranddMar 17, 20141 votes

While I agree that Nunu does need to get modified a little so he's better outside counterjungling I'm not sure making his Q usable on champs is the way to go, mostly because that might very well turn him into a very annoying solo laner again.

A better option might be to modify the buffs he gets from Q, and make them get better as Nunu ranks Q or scale off something (or both).

so say...

Rock Candy: Nunu increases his max health by 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%

Monster tails: Nunu deals 1/1.5/2/2.5/3% of his max hp as bonus magic damage

Mystery Meat: Nunu gains 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% MS for 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 seconds

So something like that. Those numbers might be completely overpowered, just spit balling here.

Edit: to go with that the buffs might need to have their duration buffed.