• Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: // No substitute on ap based character.
  
• Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: // Most of the laners will take some Magic resistance, from the build, from masteries and from runes too. Penetrate their defence.
  
• Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power: // This will help you raising your damage, level after level
• Greater Seal of Armor: // More armor, you need it in the jungle.

I put 21 points on the offence tree to get all the benefits that an ability power based champions need:

• Some cooldown. You don't really need it, but still more useful then Fury to open the tree
• Little boost...blast for ice blast :D
• Increase damage on % ? YES PLEASE
• 8% magic penetration, only one point avaible?
• Flat ap
• This is a great mastery, it synergize with blood boil and the ton of ap that you will have
• A must on ap champion
• YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE MY EEEEEEEEE
  

These 9 points in utility will help so much ...

• You must be faster
• Some mana regen :D
• Increase my mana
• You're a jungler...you're supposed to take buff. Great mastery

You were guessing right, we will upgrade Absolute Zero whenever we can ( 6 11 16 ). The second ability to max up is Ice Blast to maximize our spammable ability. Then i would reccomend to mix up q and w to keep our ganking potential ( Blood Boil ) and our counterjungling abilities up equally.

Remember : Blood Boil last 15 second and the cooldown is 15 second at any rank. Try to keep it up most of the time and remember to pop it up on the teammates

If you look close to Nunu skillset, it should be clear to you that Nunu deserve to stay in fight much longer than an ap carry. You can't enter the fight pop some spell and get out. You must have the chance to survive, cast a Consume when possible, and to have the time to cast 2 or 3 Ice Blast, of course your ultimate Absolute Zero too.
So i will not recommend a squishy build, because it won't work in my opinion.


Jungle Nunu was used to start with Doran's Ring or grabbing Boots and pots.
Nowadays with the new jungle i absolutely reccomend starting with :

Best choice to start out ... every jungler grab this .... and also you should do, it's safe and smart.
It builds in one of the core item : the Spirit of the Spectral Wraith

Not crazy ... you can survive the jungle without that 3 pots, just be more careful or take help for wolfs too. This start give more option ... after the first clear you can ward that extended lane that you can't gank to provide visibility and at the same moment go gank another lane with more problems, or you can just ward that Yorick pushing and continue to farm the jungle.


If everything went well you should back with something like 900 gold ... the best bet for you is buying that Boots and to rush Spirit Stone. Maybe you played like god and punished that Xin Zhao trying to have the first blood on top and you can have that sweet Amplifying Tome or 2x


I always buy this item... they are just crazy fit on you. The Spirit of the Spectral Wraith give all the stat to guarantee your jungle clear to be faster and safer, and so your counterjungle.
Ap, mana regen, hp regen, spellvamp (that double (almost) the healing effect of consume).
Choose the most loved wizard cap :D : the rabadon grant massive ap and it will skyrocket your Ice Blast damage.


If you are experiencing trouble or you are falling behind in gold for some reason, try to buy some Doran's Ring. It's a great item, cheap and cost efficient.



At this point it's completely up to you. It depens on team composition, on how the game is going.
There are many items good on Nunu :

I usually start at blue golem. Let your teammates help you there then go to wolfs , wraiths (gank?), red (GANK!), Gank or counterjungle ... GANK.

Is important that you take care of your passive ... don't waste mana even if you have blue buff on, cast the first Consume after 5 hit (doing so you get healed when you need), then proc Visionary for ice blast every camp.

If a gank didn't went as you planned, go to the nearest camp ... consume it and turn back in fight!! The enemies will be scared to see you going out the lane with low hp and turning back after few second with half hp full. Profit.

Nunu & Willump has good chance to win 1vs1 with most of the enemies if you know where the fights should happens. Consume is a great healing spell and you shouldn't waste this settling fights in the middle of nowhere. Make sure to have some minions or some creeps around when you want to duel with someone, and the spellvamp + the heal coming from your Q will sustain you during the fight, giving you the chance to cast 2 or 3 ice blast.

Don't go 1vs1 in a lane without enemies's minions or near cleared jungle camps.
Congratulation : you have slained an enemy.

Another great move is baiting the enemies to chase you in a bush, while you are charging Absolute Zero.

Thank you for reading my guide... i hope that this will help you with the new jungle.

If you found some grammar mistake , help me to fix it and leave some feedback of course.

Good luck and have fun !!!!


---->> 08 December 2012 : Guide published.
---->> 09 December 2012 : Enhanced item chapter.