Nunu & Willump with Irelia
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Irelia
based on 2,507 Nunu & Willump with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Nunu & Willump Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Irelia, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Irelia does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Irelia on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump during team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Irelia
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal companion for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same side as Nunu & Willump, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Nunu & Willump and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be very careful when finding Irelia allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nunu & Willump and Irelia together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Nunu & Willump in order to work well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Irelia synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump and Irelia pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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