Nunu & Willump
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Good (7/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Nunu & Willump offer a scaling playstyle centered around generating and buffing Snowballs. However, they require significant investment in both constellation upgrades and Epic relics to survive early turns in high-difficulty adventures.
Optimal Scaling
Nunu & Willump are frail early on but must attack to scale. This ensures they can attack safely on Turn 1 without dying.
Duplicates Nunu to accelerate his scaling and board presence rapidly.
Allows Nunu to consume the stats of his ephemeral Snowballs, conserving their power permanently and accelerating his growth.
Strategy
This build addresses Nunu & Willump's primary weakness: early fragility. By using Death's Foil, you guarantee safe attacks to begin scaling immediately.
Spectral Scissors and Corrupted Star Fragment work together to multiply stats and permanently absorb the power of ephemeral Snowballs, turning Nunu into an unstoppable threat.
Infinite Snowball Engine
Provides immense value by discounting and drawing spells, fueling Nunu's Snowball generation.
Creates copies of Nunu in the deck and reduces the cost of his champion spell, enabling a powerful spell-slinging engine.
Consistently draws low-cost cards, which synergizes perfectly with Nunu's Snowballs.
Strategy
This setup transforms Nunu & Willump into a spell-heavy engine. Echoing Spirit correctly discounts Nunu's champion spell, allowing for highly efficient plays.
Found Fortune reliably draws Snowballs, ensuring you always have ammunition to trigger your scaling and control the board. Searing Brilliance provides immense value by discounting and drawing spells, fueling Nunu's Snowball generation.
Deathless Value Loop
Zoe Specialized
Absorbs keywords from dying units, synergizing with the frequent deaths of ephemeral Snowballs.
Revives Nunu if he is slain, triggering summon effects again.
Grants Epic items to cards in your deck every time Nunu is summoned.
Strategy
This build is specifically tailored for extremely difficult encounters like the 10-star Zoe adventure. It relies on Nunu dying and reviving to trigger Guardian's Orb repeatedly, stacking Epic items across your deck.
Voidborne Carapace ensures Nunu collects valuable keywords from his ephemeral Snowballs as they expire, creating a massive, adaptable threat.
Accessible Value
- Essential for absorbing the stats of ephemeral Snowballs to scale Nunu permanently.
- Provides deck-wide scaling by granting Epic items upon summon.
Refills spell mana at the start of each round after Nunu is played, ensuring consistent resources to cast generated Snowballs on subsequent turns.
Strategy
For accounts lacking Epic relics, this build focuses on resource generation and stat conservation. Archangel's Staff provides the necessary spell mana on subsequent rounds to keep casting Snowballs.
Corrupted Star Fragment ensures those Snowballs translate into permanent stats for Nunu, while Guardian's Orb provides deck-wide scaling by granting Epic items upon summon.
Other Relic Options
Players disagree about Yeti Spotting Guide. Some consider it a massive boost to snowball generation, while others find it unnecessary compared to more aggressive Epic options.
Provides a crucial stat boost and Overwhelm to Nunu and his allies before he levels up, significantly improving his early game consistency.
Offers valuable early survivability through increased health and Regeneration, helping Nunu survive his vulnerable early turns.
Avoid relics that dilute the deck with non-Snowball cards, such as Stacked Deck, as Nunu heavily relies on drawing Snowballs to function. Additionally, The Taker's Bow is detrimental, as it actively interferes with Nunu's ephemeral synergies. Troll King's Crown should also be avoided, as Nunu automatically grants Overwhelm to his Snowballs upon leveling up.
Constellation
Nunu & Willump possess a kit that scales well but suffers from a slow and fragile early game. Their constellation upgrades focus on accelerating this scaling and providing inevitability, making high star levels desirable for top-tier content.
Call of the Freljord
When you play a unit, grant allies in your deck +1|+0. If it's a Yeti or costs 5+, grant allies in your deck +1|+1 instead (if it's both, grant +2/+2)
Yeti Magic
+1 Starting Mana. Game Start: Shuffle 5 Snowballs into your deck.
Call of the Freljord II
When you play a unit, grant allies in your deck +1|+1. If it's a Yeti or costs 5+, grant allies in your deck +2|+2 instead (if it's both, grant +3/+3)Review
Provides strong board presence by generating multiple Snowballs per attack, though this can occasionally lead to hand overdraw issues.
Treacherous Terrain
Each round, the first time an enemy summons a unit, Frostbite it.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Biggest Snowball Ever!
When an ally dies, grant stats equal to its Power to the top unit in your deck. Each round, the first time an allied Snowball dies while attacking, Rally.Review
Provides a powerful rally effect when attacking with Snowballs. However, it requires consistent Snowball generation to be fully utilized and can feel restrictive if Snowballs are not drawn.
Gameplay Tips
- Protect the Early Game
Nunu & Willump are extremely vulnerable when first played. Prioritize relics or support cards that ensure Nunu survives his first attack, as his entire scaling engine depends on remaining on the board.
- Understand Found Fortune's Mechanics
When using Found Fortune, the drawn Snowball will only receive either the Focusing Crystal or Elusive item. This is intended behavior, not a bug, and should be factored into your strategy when relying on this relic for draw.
- Leverage Echoing Spirit
Echoing Spirit correctly discounts Nunu's champion spell. This creates a highly efficient engine for controlling the board and generating additional value, making it a definitive relic choice for spell-heavy builds.
- Beware of Stuns and Frostbites
Nunu & Willump's scaling is entirely dependent on attacking. Encounters with heavy stun or frostbite mechanics will severely disrupt your game plan, requiring you to draft spellshield or alternative win conditions.
- Countering Stat-Reduction Modifiers
When facing modifiers like 'Small Stuff' that reduce unit stats to 1|1, Nunu's inherent deck upgrades become less effective. Focus on drafting powers and items that directly buff Nunu and Willump on the board rather than relying on base deck stats.