Aphelios with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Aphelios and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,015 Aphelios with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Nunu & Willump
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Nunu & Willump
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Nunu & Willump is a terrible ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -3.4% to 45.2%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Aphelios and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 45.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
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