User blog comment:Sagee Prime/Nunu... and the future of supports/@comment-128.230.95.223-20120819222955

Nunu isn't overpowered. He's a strong pick, and he has fantastic flexibility, but he's anything but overpowered. In the top or mid lane, he has great sustain and an amazing ability to disengage via Blood Boil and Snowball. However, he suffers from being a melee champion with no AoE outside his ult. Basically, he farms like crap. In the mid lane, smart players will abuse him at range and outfarm him, then harass when he comes in to last hit or consume. In the top lane, it will be something similar to a Cho'Gath farming lane, since its not worth trying to stomp on nunu, especially since he doesn't farm nearly as well as Cho. As a support, nunu brings raw utility in a speed/slow and a small nuke. Again, strong, but not broken. He's easily shut down by sustain supports, and is only extremely effective in skrimishes with the enemy carry. As a jungler, his clear times and ganks are mediocre; he really shines as a counter jungler with fantastic buff control. Nunu is a very strong, flexible pick, but I think by no means is he overpowered. If he build AP heavy, he's frontloading all of his damage into snowball and a potentially big ult. If he's building AD heavy, then he's doing something I've never seen before.