Nunu & Willump vs Qiyana Counter Pick

Execution cost separates these two. Qiyana rates an 8 for difficulty because Terrashape has to be elemented correctly before Supreme Display of Talent stuns anything, while Nunu & Willump rate a 4 and mostly ask for sensible snowball paths. Across 362 games on patch 16.13.1 that gap shows up as a 57.5% win rate for the yeti duo, an Easy rating.

Qiyana’s statline is assassin-thin where it counts: 590 base health and 31 armor, climbing to 2,545 and 107.5 by level 18. Her pattern is Royal Privilege bonus damage plus an Audacity dash onto a target that is already hurt, then an exit. Nunu’s 610 base health, the healing Consume pulls from camps, and the slow zone left by Absolute Zero all work against that. A fight lasting past the first rotation is not one she is built for.

The counterplay runs through terrain. A rock or brush enchantment turns Qiyana‘s ultimate into a wide stun that interrupts the Absolute Zero channel outright, so walls are worth more to her than any item. Nunu answers with spacing: 345 move speed against 335 lets him pick the ground, and the root on Snowball Barrage lands before her dashes come back up. Both champions deal magic damage, which makes magic resist the only defensive stat with real value on either side.