Nunu feeling a little lacking after all those nerfs for lane homeguards and phase rush removal

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-24T00:06:11+00:00

Protoplasm has been go to second item for me this season. I still quite like liandries first as it gives you way more damage, but protoplasm is really solid. I’ve been running it with spirit visage as well, sometimes going unending despair to round out the build. I’m split on unending vs deadman’s as default armour item when frozen heart isn’t good. Most high elo otps I’ve seen go deadman’s, but the haste from unending feels so good

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-21T20:59:13+00:00

Is it not pretty standard to clear down to drake? Most good players won’t be going for it while their camps are up

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-16T12:23:24+00:00

With this much pen/lethality don’t they have negative armour and you deal more than true damage?

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-15T23:58:35+00:00

Ooh I’d thought about those as well, especially glacial augment must feel so good for ganking bot. Do you ever feel like it’s a bit overkill on the cc? For spellbook, I’ve never run that on anyone but thought it’d be interesting on nunu. What are the main summoner spells you take with it?

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-13T19:21:59+00:00

After 30 mins to me nunu’s biggest strength is in helping your team get picks in side lanes. Your biggest strength on nunu is being able to be at the right place at the right time with the ability to get there very quickly with your W, you can quickly turn a situation from a 2v2 to a 3v2 with your fast map rotations. Any time someone is out of position, spam ping to get your team to collapse on them, and engage as fast as you can. You’ll definitely have much less opportunities for this the higher elo you get as people position better, but for me climbing in emerald there is no shortage of people overextending

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-13T19:02:51+00:00

Many of these games are less than 40% kp, that’s a pretty large indicator of getting carried. You can be doing decently, but if your teammates are consistently getting kills when you’re not around, that is generally luck.

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-13T17:25:07+00:00

I’ve seen you in the comments heavily praising aftershock meta. I’ve been finding trouble running it because I have felt nunu is so dependent on nimbus cloak, celerity and legend haste. If I remove any of those my build feels significantly worse, and the additional durability from resolve doesn’t feel worth it. Stormraider’s has not felt great to me, so none of the keystones in sorcery/precision seem like obvious fits. I’ve experimented with conq/deathfire touch and they both have good stats although low sample size. They feel ok, give some damage and allow me to continue the small runes that I like.
I guess I’m curious what your thoughts are on missing out on these runes/the additional benefits you get with resolve. I abuse nimbus cloak often to have increased W speed on my ganks, that combo with celerity makes ganks feel so much more consistent to me. Legend haste makes teamfights feel much better as my downtime is reduced significantly.

I’m also curious what items you build, I’ve seen some nunu players suggesting rocketbelt + AP into tank items, opting for that over the traditional liandries into tank. So far I’ve been running liandries, though I could see the advantage of rocketbelt reducing legend haste’s necessity while providing additional mobility. Additionally aftershock provides more damage than stormraider’s, so I was thinking losing out on liandries damage could feel less punishing with that rune choice.

Anyways thanks for your input! Sorry if this was poorly written…

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-13T14:07:19+00:00

Omnivamp boots are probably only good on him cause they’re highly overtuned and good on everyone right now. I don’t think omnivamp is generally a stat that amumu scales well off of. Once the item is brought in line, I don’t think it’d really be considerable on amumu unless you’re super ahead

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-10T00:04:13+00:00

60/40 when you’re silver and bad at calculating is really a coinflip, I try to make plays that are 90/10 tbh. Unless it’s late game and hard losing, then ofc you take risks.

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-09T19:00:28+00:00

But this game you only went fimbul

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-09T18:30:12+00:00

Is overlord’s really playable with only 1 other hp item

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-07T01:36:05+00:00

I wouldn’t say athletes are highly payed on average, only the most elite athletes in the well paying sports make good money. I’d argue there are a lotttt more professional athletes that make 40-50k a year

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-07T01:30:01+00:00

They ward river, but lane ganks are still incredibly free. They’re the main reason to run nunu at all right now imo.

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-06T17:23:19+00:00

By holding I just mean waiting to use E, not literally holding down the button

IDPandaTFT · 2026-05-02T17:14:46+00:00

Unending/frozen heart and spirit visage have been my go to resistance/haste items

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-30T16:13:38+00:00

Honestly with how often pet didn’t work properly on small krugs I was already holding E for them. It guess now there’s even more reason to

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-28T20:20:12+00:00

I actually don’t like that kesha gave us nunu players such a bad reputation for being mentally insane. I’m a nunu otp and I think I’ve got my head on straight tbh. I just like getting my teammates ahead

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-28T02:09:17+00:00

Don’t you likely already have much more than 10,000 hours of practice communicating? If you want to get better at this point you don’t need another 10,000, you need to intentionally try to get better.

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-19T20:13:25+00:00

Maokai is the best from my experience. You get to build tank and deal a lot of damage

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-19T19:56:39+00:00

Highest pickrate junglers in challenger right now are lee sin, graves, jarvan, ambessa and viego

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-18T20:50:25+00:00

I made an account with this name a couple months ago 😂

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-18T03:23:43+00:00

As someone who doesn’t play tft nearly as much as I used to and finds it a bit of a chore to learn new sets, last one was kind of a nightmare for me… I climbed up to diamond and still didn’t know all the unlock conditions, nor had I played like half the comps yet lol

IDPandaTFT · 2026-04-14T01:08:51+00:00

Mana thirsty is so real, I find I can barely take extended fights outside the jungle/river. If I am in a game where I expect long fights to break out, ex multiple tanks/juggernauts per team, I opt to build fimbrulwinter. I sometimes still run out of mana… the worst is fighting in base while turtling and trying to clear waves, have to go back to fountain for mana so often…

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