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Nunu & Willump
Nunu is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
The champion
consists of two beings:- The yeti is the primary one answering movement commands and performing basic attacks.
- The human is used to visualize various abilities, and appears in emotes. He is not one distinct unit.
Abilities[]
- The splash damage will critically strike when the basic attack does, but will not deal any bonus damage.
- Call of the Freljord range to be shared with allies is based on Nunu and Willump's location.
- If no ally is prioritized based on their stats, it will be given to the one closest to them.
- Enemies that can trigger Call of the Freljord have a marker overhead.
- This marker isn't present on inhibitors or the nexus (because they cannot hold buffs and debuffs including the one that hosts this VFX), but they still trigger Call of the Freljord when attacked.
- Call of the Freljord's maximum remaining duration is 44 seconds.
- The buff has no cap for its maximum total duration.
- Icon border glows when he is within the maximum healing threshold.
- Spell shields will block the damage and the heal.
- If the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time, this ability will cancel but does not go on cooldown nor pay its cost (if applicable).
- The initial cast and the manual recast count as ability activations for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and .
- The movement speed reduction the duo receive from initially casting Biggest Snowball Ever! is not considered a slow, thus it will not be resisted by their slow immunity.
- There are 3 stages where the turn rate increases from the original one:
- After turning for 1 second, the turn rate is increased to 175%.
- After turning for 3 seconds, the turn rate is increased to 250%.
- After turning for 6 seconds, the turn rate is increased to 325% where it caps.
- The time threshold to begin gaining bonus movement speed may be bugged, as Flat Bonus MS increases the time while % Bonus MS decreases the time.
- The formula appears to be (X ÷ 100) - Y, where:
- X = Total Flat MS after caps
- Y = 0.1 per 1% %MS
- The delay is not modified from its initially calculated value on-cast, even if additional movement speed is gained.
- The formula appears to be (X ÷ 100) - Y, where:
- Nunu and Willump keep all increases in movement speed at time of cast for the duration of the charge.
- Nunu and Willump's movement speed always increases in increments of ~14, reaching the greater value between 「 Total MS + 85 − 255 (based on level) 」「 Total Uncapped Flat MS + 85 − 255 (based on level) 」 (click to toggle).
- This takes 6 increments to reach the Total MS + 85, but may take more to reach the Uncapped Flat + 85. Due to flat bonuses increasing the time threshold, it is possible for the ability's effects to end before reaching the total uncapped movement speed.
- The bonus movement speed ignores the movement speed cap.
- If Nunu turns continuously he will create a 600 unit circle, increased with bonus movement speed, striking the same point up to 3 times, for a maximum of 180 / 225 / 270 / 315 / 360 (+ 300% AP) magic damage. The damage can be further increased by detonating the snowball, for a total of 360 / 450 / 540 / 630 / 720 (+450% AP) magic damage.
- snowball behind. will only teleport Nunu and Willump, leaving the
- Hovering the cursor on the HUD (e.g mini map / champion portraits) does not affect the cast and steering of Biggest Snowball Ever!.
- Nunu gains a slightly larger field of view during Biggest Snowball Ever!.
- Biggest Snowball Ever! is disabled for the first 15 seconds of the game.
- Displacement immunity will not resist the application of the stun.
- The following table refers for interactions while Nunu & Willump are channeling:
Type | Channel | |
---|---|---|
Attacking | Disabled | |
Abilities | Disabled | |
Movement | Allowed, but cannot input movement commands. | |
Items | Usable | N/A |
Disabled | All items are disabled | |
Interrupted by | N/A | |
Consumables | Disabled | |
Spells | Usable | N/A |
Disabled | ||
Interrupted by | N/A | |
Interrupted by |
- Each cast volley of snowballs counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering passive
- Each volley of snowballs is also a separate cast instance, allowing Snowball Barrage to trigger on its own or trigger 6 stacks of .
- Snowbound consumption does not trigger on-cast effects, neither does it count as a separate cast instance (e.g. for the purposes of ).
- The three snowballs are thrown independently from one another over the 0.4 seconds and their direction is determined from Nunu & Willump's position at any given moment.
- The initial cast and the manual recast count as ability activations for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and .
- The affected area is hidden if the duo is not visible to the enemy team.
- While it's unlikely to happen normally, it is possible to deal zero damage with Absolute Zero if canceled as soon as it's started.
- The following table refers for interactions while Nunu & Willump are channeling:
Type | Channel | |
---|---|---|
Attacking | Interrupts | |
Abilities | Interrupts | |
Movement | Interrupts | |
Items | Usable | |
Disabled | ||
Interrupted by | All item-actives not specified above interrupt | |
Consumables | Usable | |
Spells | Usable | |
Disabled | N/A | |
Interrupted by | ||
Interrupted by |
Champion skins[]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Nunu (Collection).
Once upon a time, there was a boy who wanted to prove he was a hero by slaying a fearsome monster—only to discover that the beast, a lonely and magical yeti, merely needed a friend. Bound together by ancient power and a shared love of snowballs, Nunu and Willump now ramble wildly across the Freljord, breathing life into imagined adventures. They hope that somewhere out there, they will find Nunu’s mother. If they can save her, maybe they will be heroes after all…
Lucas Jaye, Jonathan Lipow
Victor '3rdColossus' Maury
Loot eligible
Patch history[]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- AP ratio per snowball increased to 15% AP from 10% AP.
- Bug Fix: Upon recast, the snowball no longer incorrectly checks for collision at a stored location from a previous cast if the previous cast's channel was cancelled by either being rooted or rolling the snowball into terrain with an enemy target nearby, leading to the effect disappearing in the caster's field of view and affecting targets in a completely different location.
- Bug Fix: Snowball no longer gets stuck in place if it was released at exactly the same time the caster left the Fog of War.
- Base damage increased to 400 / 600 / 800 / 1000 / 1200 from 340 / 500 / 660 / 820 / 980.
- Maximum AP ratio increased to 300% AP from 250% AP.
- Heal AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 70% AP.
- Heal health ratio increased to 10% from 6% bonus health.
- Cooldown reduced to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 14 at all ranks.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 610 from 540.
- Health growth increased to 90 from 76.
- Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
- Base heal reduced to 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 from 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215.
- Heal AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 90% AP.
- Heal health ratio reduced to 6% bonus health from 10%.
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 76 from 82.
- Healing against champions reduced to 60% from 80%.
- Base heal against champions reduced to 45 / 66 / 87 / 108 / 129 from 60 / 88 / 116 / 144 / 172.
- Heal AP ratio against champions reduced 54% AP from 72% AP.
- Heal health ratio against champions reduced to 6% bonus health from 8%.
- Healing against champions reduced to 60% from 80%.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would be knocked up to a very high height when hit by while channeling.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it was missing its tooltip when hovering during mid-cast.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the tooltip was incorrectly displaying damage as "total damage" when it is actually "per snowball".
- Stats
- Base movement speed increased 345 from 340.
- AP ratio per snowball increased to 10% AP from 6% AP.
- Maximum snowball AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 54% AP.
- AP ratio per snowball increased to 10% AP from 6% AP.
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for .
- Undocumented/New Effect: Now causes the player's HUD to become transparent during the channel.
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
- Base health reduced to 540 from 570.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Stats
- Base armor reduced to 29 from 32.
- Bug Fix: No longer get more movement speed than intended by eating a right before casting it.
- Champion damage AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 50% AP.
- Minion and monster heal AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 70% AP.
- New Effect: Shield now also scales with 150% AP.
- Undocumented: Nunu's model no longer occasionally renders at a faraway location in the fog of war for enemies during the charge, effectively becoming invisible to them.
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to slow enemies more than once within the same cast of snowballs.
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 82 from 90.
- Armor growth reduced to 3 from 3.5.
- Base mana reduced to 280 from 283.56.
- Base mana regeneration reduced to 7 from 7.44.
- Slow strength reduced to 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% from 50% at all ranks.
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for .
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- Bug Fix: No longer uses base skin Biggest Snowball Ever!.
- Stats
- Base health reduced to 570 from 590.
- Base non-champion healing reduced to 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215 from 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255.
- New Effect: Icon border now glows when he is within the maximum healing threshold.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 61 from 57.
- Healing from champions increased to 80% from 50%.
- Bug Fix: Basic attack no longer cancels if Call of the Freljord expires during the attack's wind-up.
- Bug Fix: No longer heals if Consume is blocked by a spell shield.
- Bug Fix: If a small unit would die to Consume, it will now deal Consume's damage, rather than the target's current health.
- Snowball hitbox and steering controls updated to make using W smoother and fix various bugs around the snowball colliding (or not) with stuff.
- No longer deals full rollover damage if the snowball is created over small units.
- Rolling into small pets (ex. , ) no longer causes the snowball to explode.
- Cast range changed to infinite from 7500.
- Undocumented: Minimum rollover damage changed to 11.988 / 14.985 / 17.982 / 20.979 / 23.976 (+ 9.99% AP) from 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 24 (+ 60% AP).
- Undocumented: Maximum rollover damage changed to 59.94 / 74.925 / 89.91 / 104.895 / 119.88 (+ 49.95% AP) from 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 (+ 100% AP).
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing the damage and slow to sometimes be slightly off at full channel.
- General
- Adjusted splash artwork for .
- Minions and monsters heal AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 50% AP.
- Champion heal AP ratio reduced to 35% AP from 50% AP.
- Willump's transition to walking after he finishes rolling his snowball will now feel smoother.
- Snowball AP ratio increased to 6% AP from 5% AP.
- Willump's Turn AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 50% AP.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he was sometimes invisible to enemies while rolling his Biggest Snowball Ever! out of fog of war.
- V8.17 - Full Relaunch
- General
- Name changed to Nunu & Willump from Nunu.
- Title changed to the Boy and his Yeti from the Yeti Rider.
- Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
- New splash artwork for , , , , and .
- Adjusted splash artwork for and .
- New voice over.
- New lore.
- Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 67.
- Base armor increased to 32 from 28.
- Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 4.
- Innate: Nunu's and Willump's next instance of damage dealt to an enemy champion, large monster or structure grants both Willump and the nearest allied champion Call of the Freljord for 4 seconds, prioritizing the ally with highest attack speed.
- Call of the Freljord: Targets gain 20% bonus attack speed and 10% bonus movement speed. Willump's basic attacks additionally deal 30% AD bonus physical damage against the main target and to enemies around himself.
- Nunu and Willump cannot trigger Call of the Freljord from the same enemy again for a time. Successive triggers of Call of the Freljord will stack with duration, up to 40 seconds, after which the duration will be refreshed.
- On-Target Cooldown: 10 seconds (not affected by cooldown reduction).
(Innate)
- Active: Willump takes a bite of a target enemy, dealing damage and healing himself, increased by 50% when below 50% of maximum health.
- Against champions, heals for 37.5 / 60 / 82.5 / 105 / 127.5 (+ 50% AP) (+ 5% bonus health) health and deals 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 50% AP) (+ 5% bonus health) magic damage.
- Against minions and monsters, heals for 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255 (+ 50% AP) (+ 10% bonus health) health and deals 340 / 500 / 660 / 820 / 980 true damage.
- Target range: 125.
- Mana Cost: 60.
- Cooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds.
(Q)
- Active: Nunu conjures a snowball that Willump begins rolling with increasing movement speed in the target direction for up to 10 seconds, increasing its size over 5 seconds.
- The duo is immune to slows during the charge. The trajectory can be adjusted over the duration at a highly reduced capacity that increases while turning in the same direction, resetting when changing direction.
- The snowball will hit enemies it passes through, and explodes upon colliding with an enemy champion, large monster or terrain, hitting enemies within range of the explosion.
- Enemies hit take magic damage, up to a maximum of 180 / 225 / 270 / 315 / 360 (+ 150% AP), increased by 0% − X% (based on charge time), and are knocked up for X − X (based on charge time) seconds.
- After 10 seconds, upon re-activation or if the duo are interrupted, they will let loose the snowball, sending it rolling forward for an additional 1 − 3 (based on charge time) seconds during which it will not grow any larger.
- Mana Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
- Cooldown: 14 seconds.
(W)
- Active: Nunu throws a volley of 3 snowballs in the target direction over 0.4 seconds, each snowball shattering upon hitting an enemy, each snowball dealing magic damage 16 / 24 / 32 / 40 / 48 (+ 5% AP) to enemies in a cone. Enemies hit 3 times are slowed by 50% for 1 second. Champions and large monsters hit once are also Snowbound for 4 seconds, resetting on each hit.
- Snowball Barrage can be re-activated up to 2 times at no cost for 3 seconds. An enemy cannot be slowed more than once. After 3 seconds, it is Willump's Turn.
- Willump's Turn: Willump roots Snowbound enemies around him for 0.5 − 1.5 (based on level) seconds, dealing them 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 50% AP) magic damage.
- Target range: 690.
- Barrage Cooldown: 1 seconds (affected by cooldown reduction).
- Mana Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
- Cooldown: 14 seconds.
(E)
- Active: Nunu and Willump sap heat from the area around them for up to 3 seconds. Moving ends Absolute Zero's effects immediately, and the area is invisible if the duo is not revealed.
- The duo gains a 65 / 75 / 85 (+ 30 / 40 / 50% bonus health) shield while channeling that refreshes each second, and enemies within the frosted area are slowed by 50% − 95% (based on channel time).
- Enemies caught in the frozen area when the channel ends or is interrupted take magic damage, up to a maximum of 625 / 950 / 1275 (+ 250% AP), increased by 0% − X% (based on channel time).
- Mana Cost: 100.
- Cooldown: 110 / 100 / 90 seconds.
(R)
Trivia[]
- Nunu was named after Steve 'Guinsoo' Feak's dog.[2]
- Nunu is also a nickname for his wife.[3]
- The update in patch V7.16 that made it so the portrait of the selected skin would be used in the central portion of the in-game UI showed the portrait of instead of Nunu for every skin except for his skin.
- the theoretical temperature at which matter stops moving completely (referencing both slows the ability has) and has the highest single ability power ratio in-game (300%). was named after
- In the V1.0.0.115 April Fools' Day patch, he was jokingly listed to receive a skin called "Nunurf", referencing .
- Nunu & Willump drop a soul each.
- Their dance is an updated version of their old animation in which dances and provides music.
- Stitch from the Lilo & Stitch franchise,
- Wild Thing from Where the Wild Things Are series,
- Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender series.
was most likely inspired by several characters from different media, such as: