Nunu is a very strong and very underrated solo top.


Nunu is a tank/ tanky DPS champion capable of EMPIRE!. Nunu can slaughter teams and burn down nexuses if left unchecked. Many people have been underestimating him recently as he has only been used as a support. As a top laner Nunu has strength to fight most lanes, as well as the ability to be useful to his team through his utility regardless of his score.

Passive: Visionary- Nunu can cast a spell for free after 7 attacks.
Gives you free harass after you last hit enough. This skill is nice in top lane where most of the lane phase you will be auto attacking.

Q: Consume- Takes a bite out of target minion, dealing 400/525/650/775/900 damage and restoring 125 / 200 / 275 / 350 / 425 (+100% of ability power) health. Cooldown 35 / 30 / 25 / 20 / 15 seconds. Cost 60 mana. Range 125.
Gives you sustain in lane, this skill also will help your team later in the game as you will have another smite. This skill also allows you to counter jungle very well.

W: Blood Boil- Increases an allied unit's attack speed by 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% and movement speed by 11 / 12.5 / 13 / 14.5 / 15% for 15 seconds. Nunu also gains the effects of Bloodboil if casted on an allied unit. Cooldown 20seconds. Cost 50mana. Range 700.
This skill gives you nice mobility in lane (AS is ok but not really amazing), End game this is the reason why you will ALWAYS be useful. No matter how you are doing, giving your carry a 65% atk spd boost and a 15% movespeed boost will be a BIG deal in teamfights.

E: Ice Blast- Nunu throws a ball of ice at an enemy unit, dealing 85 / 130 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and slowing their movement speed by 20/30/40/50/60% and attack speed by 25% for 4 seconds. Cooldown 6 seconds. Cost 75 / 85 / 95 / 105 / 115mana.
Spammable harass move that slows and reduces attack speed as well as having a 1 AP ratio. <3
Using this on the enemy carry can put them in a very bad position.

R: Absolute Zero- While channeling for 3 seconds, slows nearby enemy units' attack speed and movement speed. After channeling, enemies caught in the area are dealt 625 / 875 / 1125 (+250% of ability power) magic damage. Cooldown 150 / 120 / 90seconds. Cost 150mana. Range 550.
EMPIRE!!!!! This skill is AMAZING, you channel slowing all enemies in your circle as well as lowering your attack speed. At the end of your channel you explode it and deal TONS OF DAMAGE. This skill singlehandedly wins teamfights. This skill will Zone, make enemies focus you, debuff all the enemies who try and fight, and best case scenerio... PENTAKILL!!!!!

Skill Order:

Max Q before W only if you need the sustain.
Combos:

E-W-R-(Q if there is anythign to heal off of)

Fiora (As slow and mobility slow, you have complete control of aggression. If she ever ults begin charging YOUR ult shen will die when hers ends.), Darius (You can poke him down early on, if he apprehends you you can ult in his face), Garen (You have to much mobility), Jax (You can poke him really hard, if he jumps in on you and stuns you, you can ultimate as he blew his CC and escape), Nasus (Your harass early will zone him out of lane), Irelia (She cant outtrade your harass and if she jumps on you to try you just ultimate), Riven (You hold mobility control, your snowball does more then she shields), Teemo (You can snowball trade whenever he blinds and heal off his harass), Kayle (Sustain off her harass and if you snowball when she E's she wont get anything out of it]] and Yorick (Fun matchup, you just farm and he gives you free food =D).

Vladimir (Can sustain when you poke, he becomes really strong really fast), Dr.Mundo (Sustains all day long), Warwick Sustains and can cancel your ultimate]], and Galio (His ultimate cancels yours and he has a better initaite.

• Ultimate from a brush if possible the enemies will have no sight
• If you KNOW the enemy jungler will start at blue on purple team, take consume level 1 and go eat their blue wraith.
• Bloodboil the cannon minion if you want your lane to push faster.
• You can freeze the lane really well with your tankiness/Consume, if the enmy comes by you can push them away with snowballs.

• Save a CC for nunu ultimate.
• Get some MR in lane or nunu will get free win
• AVOID BRUSHES!

Rod of Ages- Makes you tankier and makes you do a lot more damage with your ultimate.

Banshee's Veil- Try to keep them from stopping your ultimate

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes your ultimate pentakill

Sunfire Aegis- Gives you armor and hp

Void Staff- They built MR?

Abyssal Mask- If your team has a decent amount of magic damage this item is nice for your Mpen.

Nunu works ok here, but most people in soloQ wont acknowledge this and calll you a troll hurting your teams chances of winning.

Nunu works really well here. The enemy team will think you picked nunu as you support and will pick something trying to guess your top. Your Atk speed buff and ultimate are also much better when coordinated with allies.

Nunu is a very fun underrated strong top laner. I hope this top facts helped you to better learn about this champion. Nunu is very accessible with his pricing, so you should go get him and try him top lane =D. As always have a good day and good luck on the fields of justice summoners.

SERIES UPDATE:
I plan on releasing these every day/other day until I get all of the top lane picks in the league ( about 50-60 of them) if there are any requests leave in the comments below and ill work on them. I want to make this series for others to better understand the champions of top lane. Once I am done (Or once I have a few top facts out) I will release some Facts about top lane mechanics, eventually I will probably put everything into one generic top lane guide, however until I do that I will continue to watch and update my blogs as needed. Tips and tricks I missed under my Top Facts would be helpful if you put anything I don't have in the comments I will be sure to add it. I will be forming a guide called The complete guide to Top lane or something in that nature. The intention of this series is not as a "Build guide" or a "play guide", these are more like facts you should know about the champion. These are to inspire people to think of new champion possibilities they might not have thought of or to help a new player with the champion. I do not list runes masteries or a set build ( I give a kind of recommended items) in here due to the fact I want people to think of that for themselves and try new things. This series is an attempt for the LOL community to try new things and have fun in a fun game. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :P