Nunu & Willump with Aphelios
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Aphelios
based on 2,015 Nunu & Willump with Aphelios pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Nunu & Willump Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nunu & Willump sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Aphelios, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Aphelios
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor teammate for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 45.2%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Nunu & Willump and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be very careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Nunu & Willump to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Nunu & Willump and Aphelios synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 45.2% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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