Katarina with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Katarina and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,926 Katarina with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nunu & Willump
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nunu & Willump helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Nunu & Willump, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Nunu & Willump
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a not very good ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 46.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your team very much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Katarina and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.1% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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