PCNunu & Willump was last buffed in Patch 26.3 (). Across 74 patches, Nunu & Willump has received 27 buffs, 14 nerfs, 32 adjustments since release in Patch 0.8.21.110.
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We aimed to give Nunu & Willump a hefty nerf but overshot our goals so we're here to walk back part of the nerf package.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Maximum base damage increased to 180/225/270/315/360 from 150/195/240/285/330.
Snowball Barrage
- Base damage per hit increased to 15/22.5/30/37.5/45 from 14/21/28/35/42.
Nunu & Willump are devouring the competition in the new season, so we’re here to bring them back to a fairer level of power. To do that, we’re reducing a mix of the PvP and PvE power out in their kits to give opponents a fighting chance.
Consume
- Cooldown increased to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 12/11/10/9/8.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Maximum base damage reduced to 150/195/240/285/330 from 180/225/270/315/360.
- Minimum base damage reduced to 30/39/48/57/66 from 36/45/54/63/72.
Snowball Barrage
- Base damage per hit reduced to 14/21/28/35/42 from 16/24/32/40/48.
- AP ratio per hit reduced to 12% AP from 15% AP.
Consume
- New Effect: While the ability is not on cooldown, its icon can now be pinged to display the damage to monsters in chat, similarly to Smite.
E AP ratio increased.
Snowball Barrage
- AP ratio per snowball increased to 15% AP from 10% AP.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- 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 root 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.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- 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.
Q damage to non-champions increased.
Consume
- Base damage increased to 400/600/800/1000/1200 from 340/500/660/820/980.
R AP scaling increased.
Absolute Zero
- Maximum AP ratio increased to 300% AP from 250% AP.
Q healing against non-champions increased. E cooldown now decreases with ability rank.
Consume
- Heal AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 70% AP.
- Heal health ratio increased to 10% from 6% bonus health.
Snowball Barrage
- 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.
Consume
- 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%.
Health growth decreased. Q base damage and healing from champions decreased.
Stats
- Health growth reduced to 76 from 82.
Consume
- 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%.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would be knocked up to a very high height when hit by Unburrow while channeling.
Snowball Barrage
- 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".
Base movement speed increased. E damage ratio per snowball increased.
Stats
- Base movement speed increased 345 from 340.
Snowball Barrage
- AP ratio per snowball increased to 10% AP from 6% AP.
- Maximum snowball AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 54% AP.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Undocumented/New Effect: Now causes the player's HUD to become transparent during the channel.
Base movement speed and health decreased.
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.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Bug Fix: No longer get more movement speed than intended by eating a Honeyfruit right before casting it.
Q damage and healing ratio increased. R shield now includes AP ratio.
Consume
- Champion damage AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 50% AP.
- Minion and monster heal AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 70% AP.
Absolute Zero
- New Effect: Shield now also scales with 150% AP.
Snowball Barrage
- Bug Fix: Is no longer able to slow enemies more than once within the same cast of snowballs.
Base stats decreased. E slow now scales.
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.
Snowball Barrage
- Slow strength reduced to 30/35/40/45/50% from 50% at all ranks.
Papercraft
- Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Bug Fix: No longer uses base skin Biggest Snowball Ever!.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 570 from 590.
Consume
- Base non-champion healing reduced to 75/110/145/180/215 from 75/120/165/210/255.
Consume
- New Effect: Icon now glows when he is within the maximum healing threshold.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 61 from 57.
Consume
- Healing from champions increased to 80% from 50%.
Call of the Freljord
- Bug Fix: Basic attack no longer cancels if Call of the Freljord expires during the attack's wind-up.
Consume
- Bug Fix: No longer heals if Consume is blocked by a spell shield.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Snowball hitbox and steering controls updated to make using W smoother and fix various bugs around the snowball colliding (or not) with stuff.
- Rolling into small pets (ex. Jack in the Box, Shepherd of Souls) no longer causes the snowball to explode.
Absolute Zero
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing the damage and slow to sometimes be slightly off at full channel.
Consume
- Minions and monsters heal AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 50% AP.
- Champion heal AP ratio increased to 35% AP from 25% AP.
- Tooltip now accurately reflects how much healing Nunu and Willump get from champions. Previously listed the AP ratio incorrectly.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Willump's transition to walking after he finishes rolling his snowball will now feel smoother.
Snowball Barrage
- Snowball AP ratio increased to 6% AP from 5% AP.
- Willump's Turn AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 50% AP.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he was sometimes invisible to enemies while rolling his Biggest Snowball Ever! out of fog of war.
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 artwork for Original, Grungy, Nunu Bot, Demolisher, Sasquatch, and Workshop.
- Tweaked artwork for TPA and Zombie.
- 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.
Call of the Freljord (Innate)
- Innate: Nunu's and Willump's next instance of damage dealt to an enemy champion, large monster or turret 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).
Consume (Q)
- 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.
Biggest Snowball Ever! (W)
- Active: Nunu conjures a Biggest Snowball Ever! that Willump channel with increasing movement speed in the target direction for up to 10 seconds, increasing its size over 5 seconds.
- The duo is immune to slow 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% to X% (based on charge time), and are airborne for X to X (based on charge time) seconds.
- After 10 seconds, upon re-activation or if the duo are interrupt, they will let loose the snowball, sending it rolling forward for an additional 1 to 3 (based on charge time) seconds during which it will not grow any larger.
- Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.
- Cooldown: 14 seconds.
Snowball Barrage (E)
- 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 slow 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 slow more than once. After 3 seconds, it is Willump's Turn.
- Willump's Turn: Willump root Snowbound enemies around him for 0.5 to 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.
Absolute Zero (R)
- Active: Nunu and Willump channel 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 sight.
- The duo gains a 65/75/85 (+ 30/40/50% bonus health) shield while channel that refreshes each second, and enemies within the frosted area are slow by 50%/65%/80%/95% (at level 0/1/2/3) (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%/X%/X% (at level 0/1/2/3) (based on channel time).
- Mana Cost: 100.
- Cooldown: 110/100/90 seconds.
Blood Boil
- Bonus attack speed reduced to 20/24/28/32/36% from 25/30/35/40/45%.
- New Effect: Bonus attack speed now scales at 5% per 100 AP of Nunu's AP.
- Ability power percentage reduced to 20% from 40%.
- New Effect: Bonus ability power now scales at 5% per 100 AP of Nunu's AP.
Consume
- New Effect: Well Fed now also grants 3/5/7/9/11 (+ 5% AP) bonus magic damage on basic attacks per stack, up to 15/25/35/45/55 (+ 25% AP) at 5 stacks.
Blood Boil
- New Effect: Now also grants for both targets 40% of the target's ability power, capped at 40/60/80/100/120.
Ice Blast
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Nunu Bot
- Bug Fix: Arms are no longer missing electric VFX.
General
- New ability icons.
Visionary
- Bug Fix: No longer gets a second Visionary passive after recalling.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 575 from 598.28.
- Base health regeneneration reduced to 7 from 8.39.
Visionary
- New Effect: Having 5 Visionary stacks enhances the effect of his next ability:
- Consume: +160 true damage, +50 base healing.
- Blood Boil: +1% movement speed, +5% attack speed.
- Ice Blast: +40 base damage, +5% movement speed slow.
- Absolute Zero: +250 maximum base damage.
Consume
- Base damage changed to 340/500/660/820/980/1140 from 400/550/700/850/1000.
- Heal changed to 50/100/150/200/250/300 from 70/115/160/205/250.
Consume
- Well Fed bonus health per stack reduced to 2% maximum health from 3% maximum health.
- Well Fed maximum bonus health reduced to 10% maximum health from 15% maximum health.
General
- Recommended items have been updated.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 59 from 56.86.
- Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.45.
Visionary
- New Effect: Now starts the game with 5 stacks, and refreshes the buff upon recalling or respawning.
Consume
- Cooldown reduced to 12/11/10/9/8 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.
- Removed: Nunu receiving unique benefits for casting Consume on certain neutral monsters.
- Elemental Delight: Nunu gains 10% increased size and 10% maximum health as bonus health, also restoring health equal to the amount gained.
- Spooky Snacks: Killing a unit grants Nunu 15% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds.
- Mystery Meat: Nunu's attacks and abilities deal 1% of his maximum health as bonus magic damage.
- New Passive Effect – Feed the Yeti: Every large monster consumed feeds Willump, granting him a stack of Well Fed. Each stack of Well Fed grants Nunu 10 movement speed out of combat, 3% maximum health and size (stacking 5 times). Stacks refresh on each cast of Consume, falling off every 50/55/60/65/70 seconds.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where bonus health received from Consume didn't stack with Cinderhulk.
Absolute Zero
- Removed: 0.25 seconds cast time.
- New Effect: Movement speed slow now increases to 95% over duration of channel.
Ice Blast
- Cooldown reduced to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds from 6 at all ranks.
- Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 75/85/95/105/115.
- Damage reduced to 80/120/160/200/240 from 85/130/175/225/275.
- AP ratio reduced to (+ 90% AP) from (+ 100% AP).
- Movement speed slow increased to 40/45/50/55/60% from 20/30/40/50/60%.
- Slow duration reduced to 2 seconds from 3.
Consume
- Increased size "Well Fed" bonus no longer increases Nunu's attack range.
Stats
- Health Growth reduced to 90 from 96.
Blood Boil
- New Effect: Self-casting the ability now grants Blood Boil to the nearest ally champion.
Consume
- Rough Rock Candy is now obtained from killing stone monsters, instead of golems.
- Spooky Mystery Meat is now obtained from killing animals and undead, instead of wraiths and wolves.
- Ornery Monster Tails is now obtained from killing "other monsters", instead of reptiles.
Absolute Zero
- Will now list the minimum damage in the tooltip.
Consume
- Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 17/15/13/11/9.
- Damage reduced to 400/550/700/850/1000 from 500/625/750/875/1000.
- Heal reduced to 70/115/160/205/250 from 90/130/170/210/250.
Stats
- Health per level reduced to 96 from 108.
Consume
- Damage reduced to 500/625/750/875/1000 from 600/700/800/900/1000.
Consume
- Damage increased to 600/700/800/900/1000 from 500/600/700/800/900.
- Healing reduced to 90/130/170/210/250 from 125/180/235/290/345.
- Healing AP ratio reduced to 0.75 from 1.0.
- Consume now grants bonuses for 120/150/180/210/240 seconds based on the type of monster consume was used on:
- Golem-type monsters grant 10% increased size and maximum Health.
- Lizard-type monsters grant Nunu's attacks and spells additional magic damage equal to 1% of Nunu's maximum health.
- Wraith or Wolf-type monsters grant 15% movement speed for 3 seconds after Nunu kills a unit.
- Cooldown increased to 17/15/13/11/9 from 16/14/12/10/8.
Consume
- No longer expends Visionary if the target dies before Consume resolves.
Absolute Zero
- Cooldown reduced to 110/100/90 seconds from 150/120/90.
- Mana cost reduced to 100 from 150.
These changes are focused on forcing Nunu to play more actively in his support role by reducing the power he passively contributes to his allies.
Stats
- Base movement speed increased to 350 from 340.
Blood Boil
- Duration reduced to 12 seconds from 15.
- Attack speed bonus reduced to 25/30/35/40/45% from 25/35/45/55/65%.
- Movement speed bonus reduced to 8/9/10/11/12% from 11/12/13/14/15%.
Ice Blast
- Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
Visionary
- Now grants free cost spells even if spells were ranked up while the buff was already active.
Visionary
- Attacks required to activate reduced to 5 from 7.
Consume
- Damage increased to 500/600/700/800/900 from 400/525/650/775/900.
- Damage dealt to Dragon and Baron Nashor increased to 100% from 50%.
- Cooldown reduced to 16/14/12/10/8 seconds from 18/16/14/12/10.
Absolute Zero
- Minimum damage if interrupted increased to 12.5% from 0%.
- Maximum damage if interrupted increased to 87% from 70%.
Absolute Zero
- Fixed a bug where it was revealing Nunu when cast from brush.
Stats
- Magic resist per level increased to 1.25 from 0.
Absolute Zero
- Added a range indicator.
Absolute Zero
- Fixed a bug where the slow did not grant assists.
Absolute Zero
- Fixed a bug where its slow did not grant assists.
Stats
- Attack speed increased to 0.625 from 0.613.
- Attack speed growth increased to 2.25% from 1.08.
Stats
- Range increased to 125 from 100.
Consume
- Range increased to 125 from 100.
Consume
- Base damage reduced to 400/525/650/775/900 from 500/600/700/800/900.
Ice Blast
- Slow reduced to 20/30/40/50/60% from 40/45/50/55/60%.
Absolute Zero
- Fixed a bug where it being cancelled immediately could deal more damage than intended.
Absolute Zero
- Improved spell particles.
Stats
- Base attack speed increased to 0.613 from 0.558.
Consume
- Cooldown reduced to 18/16/14/12/10 from 30/26/22/18/14.
- Heal reduced to 125/180/235/290/345 from 125/200/275/350/425.
Consume
- Nunu can now more easily Consume any unit, including Dragon and Lizard Elder.
Visionary
- Fixed the tooltip to correctly say that Nunu gains a free spell every 7 attacks instead of 8.
General
- Base magic resist increased to 30 from 25.
Visionary
- Hits required to activate reduced to 7 from 8.
Consume
- Heal increased to 125/200/275/350/425.
- Mana cost reduced to 60 from 80 at all ranks.
- Cooldown reduced to 30/26/22/18/14 from 35/30/25/20/15.
Ice Blast
- Slow modified to 40/45/50/55/60% from 50% at all ranks.
Blood Boil
- Movement speed buff modified to 11/12/13/14/15% from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%.
- Duration reduced to 15 from 40.
- Cooldown reduced to 15 from 20.
- Mana cost reduced to 50 from 75.
- If Blood Boil is cast on an ally, Nunu now also gains the effect.
Absolute Zero
- Mana cost reduced to 150 at all ranks from 150/225/300.
Consume
- Cooldown reduced to 30/26/22/18/14 from 35/30/25/20/15.
Absolute Zero
- Base damage increased to 625/875/1125 from 500/700/900.
Blood Boil
- Attack speed increased to 25/35/45/55/65% from 20/30/40/50/60%.
Absolute Zero :
- Damage increased to 500/700/900 from 400/600/800.
- Attack speed slow per second increased to 25% from 15%.
- Range increased to 575 from 525.
General
- Updated particles.
Absolute Zero
- Damage increased to 400/600/800 from 375/550/750.
- Slow increased to 49% from 45%.
Absolute Zero
- Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
- Damage reduced to 375/550/750 from 500/750/1000.
- Slow increased to 45% from 40%.
Visionary
- Particle now lasts the correct duration.
Stats
- Movement speed increased to 315 from 310.
Consume
- No longer says that it deals 0 damage.
Blood Boil
- Movement speed percentage increased to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% from 8/11/14/17/20.
Ice Blast
- Damage increased to 85/130/175/225/275 from 70/120/170/220/270.
Absolute Zero
- Fixed a bug causing it to not deal damage if it breaks prematurely.
General
- Lore: Updated names
Stats
- Movement speed increased to 310 from 295.
Visionary
- Tooltip updated.
Nunu & Willump added to League of Legends
Consume
- Damage to minions/monsters modified to 500/600/700/800/900 from 800 at all ranks.
Blood Boil
- Attack speed increased to 20/30/40/50/60 from 15/25/35/45/55.
Absolute Zero
- Ability power ratio reduced to 2.5 from 3.
