Gragas with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Gragas and Nunu & Willump
based on 830 Gragas with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Nunu & Willump
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas 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 fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he sees a clear improvement in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Nunu & Willump
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Nunu & Willump is a very bad companion for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -6.7% to 41.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Gragas and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nunu & Willump teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gragas and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be providing your team enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Gragas to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, 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 should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 41.2% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 41.2% winrate overall.
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