I started playing league and coincidentally Nunu last year I placed in ranked in 2020 but never really played much after that and then in 2021 I hit Gold 4 and peaked in Gold 2 then in 2022 I skyrocketed from placing in Bronze/Silver to climbing with a ~70% winrate to Diamond 2 then getting into a lull and dropping back to D4 and taking a break from ranked and trying to find fun in the game again and recently I found that playing Nunu Support was some of the most fun I've had in this game and reignited my passion for ranked I hope to play some more Nunu support in Diamond elo and truly prove the power of this build and hopefully hit Master tier

I play this game for fun and I think that is one of the most important elements of climbing especially for me and I hope this build is also fun for you no matter the elo or your skill on Nunu

Nunu is a great ganking and damage-dealing champ while building AP he allows you to one-shot squishy targets I.E adcs and enchanters this can make laning on Nunu super SNOWBALLY (haha) and get you and your adc bunch of early kills with your CC and healing

Your Q allows you to run it down with your W all the time and just heal the health back and building full damage allows you to outdamage the enemy support and even your own laners which I have been doing regularly and with good macro and timing your picks right you can establish objective control and map control super easily

Your roaming is also pretty much top tier when it comes to supports and can easily just make enemy laners and junglers quit and give up CS or tilt them to the moon and make the game easy for your laners and hell for the enemies

Immobile adcs and mages are pretty much free kills on repeat for you even as a support if you end up getting on top of them with ghost you can one-shot or one-combo them easily and get out fast with your night harvester movement speed

Your build path right now is also super good getting you health and AP easily with multiple Alternator items and then getting a LOT of AP with Deathcap and Mejais which leads to you one-shotting pretty much every champ in the game even bruisers and some tanks with a full charged ult or a snowball combo


Late game you can sit in a bush and one-shot pretty much anyone and everyone on their team to get easy objectives and can lead to a won team fight and ending of the game or taking of inhibitors to lead to an end

He also buffs his adc with his passive giving an extra 20% attack speed and 10% move speed at all times during the fighting while you're also doing damage so he ends up being a damage support with a Lulu W as his passive which is easily applied

Your gank setup is also top-notch allowing the jungler to camp your lane if they want to and pretty easily rack up kills

I only see this getting better with the new items being released and getting access to Sunfire while also building AP and the new AP items looking good for Nunu

You should be playing towards the outskirts of fights without your ult up and when it is up you can play deep in fights and let it charge while your team fights and distracts the enemies which should allow massive damage

Gank setup and ganks are super good on Nunu and you should be playing with and pinging your jungler as much as you possibly can throughout the game playing with your jungler and midlaner will lead to a lot higher chance to win

Stacking your Dark Harvest is super useful and easy to do in a 2 person lane with 2 semi squishy champs and you should definitely be stacking as many as possible and it gives you a lot of early kill pressure because you can auto them to get the stacks and make your autos more powerful when they are low

Your passive is useful early as well giving movement and attack speed to your adc to allow them to catch up to the fight and lethal tempo stacking or PTA adcs to stack faster and get earlier kills and damage

Your E slows the enemy and allows you to root them for your adc or jungle to easily kill them

Getting creative with your W is the most important part of skill expression on Nunu and once you've got it mastered it can lead to crazy plays once you use ghost navigating corners and the jungle can get difficult but is possible and can lead to some super crazy plays

Your shield and heal from your ult and Q scale with ability power and health so alternator items are really worth especially for the burst you get from them along with the raw stats the movement speed from Night Harvest can either make it easier for you to reach the backline or get out of the enemies grasp fast enough so you don't die

Diving with your ultimate can be super good or just charging it under turret against enemies without stuns or knock-ups because it will continue to charge regardless of roots which can one shot someone under turret or allow your adc to easily kill them with autos and you can heal with your Q and escape with Night Harvester and Passive speed

The best way to start a game is against easily invadeable teams which you can do by starting W and rolling from pixel bush to the red buff either above or below depending on vision or feeling and then a level 1 engage on your lane opponents with a Snowball from the river can lead to an easy level 1 kill or an early HP advantage on your enemy laners it tends to be best to focus the adc since they have to stay in lane and farm and soak exp and the support can just back and come back without losing much early

A typical mistake is generally being out of lane too often and not getting any exp so try to make sure if you're out of bot lane you are still getting enough exp because hitting level 6 is one of Nunus biggest early spikes allowing him to one shot pretty much any support or adc in the game

You then want to just keep up the pressure constantly rolling snowballs from the alcove, river, and your turret once you are low health wait for level 2 and eat a minion or 2 to get back up to full health before using your W to engage more your Q is the best tool in your kit allowing you to permanently fight healing off jungle camps and minions and the enemy laners

If you end up forcing a back from your lane opponents or killing them and you still have mana and health left a mid gank can be done using ghost to get there quickly things like this can be game-changing for your mid-laner especially if they are in a losing matchup

You can also less frequently gank top if the opportunity looks too good to pass up like the enemy top preparing a big wave for a dive and your jungler shadowing the lane for a counter-gank backing and getting up there in time could lead to a double kill and a fed top laner

Nunu is really good in a lot of these situations and getting your jungler to be near your lane during key moments is super valuable due to Nunu's extremely good gank setup either getting out their flashes or CCing the enemy for extended periods of time

Dark seal and Boots should be your first items and allow you to roam and stack your dark seal easily you should be picking up farm that your laners will miss from backing or dying in lane

Stacking your dark seal is important but losing stacks to give your teammates kills and objectives is always worth it, especially on support and is why you save getting mejais for the very last item either in the middle of getting or when you have Deathcap

Nunu is very hungry for gold and exp, especially early-middle game getting kills and CS isn't necessarily bad on Nunu support, especially in lower elo while trying to carry I've dropped 80,000+ damage games on this support and regularly do 1,000+ damage per minute in my games and end up out damaging my laners and other supports easily

Mid-game Nunu with a dark seal and your first full item or even just a hextech alternator will start half-healthing the squishy enemies and you should target enchanters/adcs in lane and immobile mages in the mid lane with a lot of high speed and powerful ganks pinging your jungle and laners to be there to finish the job

Play for the Herald and Dragons with your team and try to get picks before they spawn and help your junglers capture and setup for these objectives make sure you're always watching objective timers and letting your team know when they're up and that you're available to do them Nunu Q is the best ability in the game for taking objectives and an Ult Q combo can easily steal from low CC or no CC enemy junglers like Graves because you can basically get 2k damage from ult and 980 True damage from your Q onto the objective while zoning with your ultimate which makes you a sort of hybrid jungle support that can objectively take over games

You can also cheese really easily in the alcove/alcove bushes in your lane and pretend like you're backing and actually sit and wait in a bush where your ultimate can one-shot most adcs and supports from the bush make sure to either control ward or use your oracle lense to make sure the bush is clear of vision and especially in lower elo you can do this over and over again with pretty much no pushback

Landing these one-shot combos or bush ultimates is super tilting and will pretty much guarantee enemies are weary of unwarded bushes and can even cause them to just quit the game or they become so stressed it's hard for them to focus typing in chat and messing with the enemy mental is a super viable way to win a game and something that a lot of high elo players pay attention to this kind of thing and use it to their advantage and so should you

Play for picks on enemy squishes and late-game objectives like Dragons and Barons this will lead to a higher chance of winning as you can shove waves super easily on Nunu and this allows you to force enemies to catch waves or miss exp and gold to come to try to fight at baron or drag you can also sneak your way into the enemy jungle and try to cut them off and get them low with you ultimate before they get to the objective making the fights super easy

The best way to basically become a game-ending/changing late-game Nunu is by clearing vision and waiting in a bush and getting multiple enemies low or dead with your ultimate (the enemies can't see your ultimate if they can't see you)

Once you get a pick or maybe even 2 your team should either get jungle objectives or try your best to 5 man down mid and end or just get close to it and shove out waves which should lead to an easy win

Level 16 is important late game to allow you to easily get the one-shots with a max rank ultimate with a 300% ability power ratio and crazy base damage