Bard with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Bard and Nunu & Willump
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Bard Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nunu & Willump
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Nunu & Willump does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Nunu & Willump
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no one best ally for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very typical ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 52.0%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Bard and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Bard and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Bard and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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