Nunu & Willump vs Ambessa Counter Pick

A caveat first: 125 games on patch 16.13.1 is a thin record, so the 57.6% reading for Nunu & Willump indicates a favorable matchup rather than proving one. The mechanism is clear enough. Ambessa is a physical damage fighter with 125 attack range who has to be adjacent to do anything, and most of what Nunu does either pushes her away or freezes her in place.

The specific tools:

• Biggest Snowball Ever! grows in size and speed as it rolls, then damages and knocks up — a knockup being the cleanest interruption for a champion whose pattern is built on Drakehound’s Step dashes.
• Snowball Barrage roots champions and large monsters hit by the volley, stranding her outside the range her kit needs.
• Consume bites a minion, monster or champion for damage and healing, so the sustain race through the jungle rarely goes her way.

Absolute Zero is the awkward part: a channelled blizzard that slows and then detonates for heavy damage, while Public Execution blinks her onto the most distant champion in a chosen line and suppresses on arrival, cancelling that channel outright. Treat the ultimate as a follow-up, never an opener. Damage types split cleanly, since magic output ignores the value of her level-18 armor of 118.3, while her physical damage meets only 100.4 armor and a 2,140 health ceiling. Difficulty ratings of 4 against 10 complete the picture. See Ambessa.