Lee Sin with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump
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Lee Sin Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Nunu & Willump
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Lee Sin perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he gets a very large increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Nunu & Willump supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together 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 with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Lee Sin plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he typically takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin during teamfights.
Synergies between Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad teammate for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he drops their win rate by -4.4% to 42.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Nunu & Willump teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Lee Sin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be granting your team a lot of utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lee Sin in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Lee Sin and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with most other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 42.9% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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