Alistar with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Alistar and Nunu & Willump
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Alistar Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nunu & Willump
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Alistar Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nunu & Willump helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nunu & Willump does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nunu & Willump
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a terrible teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 45.8%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Alistar and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Alistar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Alistar and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 45.8% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Alistar and Nunu & Willump pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
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