Nunu & Willump

Nunu set out to become a hero the straightforward way: by hunting down a monster and defeating it. What he found in the frozen reaches of the Freljord wasn’t the fight he expected. The yeti he’d come to slay turned out to be magical, ancient, and mostly just lonely, and the two of them ended up bound together by something closer to friendship than conquest — sealed, fittingly, over a shared love of snowballs.

Since then, the pair haven’t settled into any one place or purpose. They wander the Freljord turning ordinary moments into imagined adventures, treating the whole frozen expanse as a stage for whatever story they’ve decided to tell that day. Underneath the games, though, there’s a real goal driving them: finding Nunu’s mother, who is still out there somewhere. Nunu holds onto the idea that saving her would finally make the heroism official, the kind he originally set out looking for the wrong way entirely.

Willump does the heavy lifting in a fight, and Call of the Freljord, Nunu’s passive, speeds up both Willump and a nearby ally while making Willump’s attacks splash onto anyone standing close. Consume lets Willump bite down on a minion, monster, or champion to heal off the damage, and Biggest Snowball Ever! rolls a snowball that grows in size and speed as it goes, knocking up whatever it hits. Snowball Barrage has Nunu throw a volley that roots anyone caught by it once it lands, and Absolute Zero conjures a blizzard that slows everyone inside before detonating for heavy damage at the end. It’s a strange toolkit for two people mostly looking for company, but it’s kept them going through territory shared with the likes of Ashe and Braum.

The pair play as a Tank duo most often in Top or Mid lane, running on mana like many Freljord champions. Consume helps Willump hold a lane against ranged harassment, and skilled Nunu players wait for the first wave of enemy crowd control to be spent before committing to Absolute Zero, since interrupting its channel early only deals partial damage and undercuts the whole engage. Escaping the finished blizzard reliably takes a dedicated dash or Flash, and dodging Biggest Snowball Ever! comes down to sharp, sudden turns rather than outrunning it in a straight line, since the snowball accelerates faster than it steers.