Malzahar with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,546 Malzahar with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nunu & Willump
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar 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 worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may signal that Nunu & Willump helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Nunu & Willump
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Nunu & Willump is a below average ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Malzahar and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nunu & Willump allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Malzahar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be providing your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Malzahar and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Malzahar and Nunu & Willump pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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