Nunu & Willump with Katarina
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Katarina
based on 2,926 Nunu & Willump with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
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.
Nunu & Willump Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Katarina, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Katarina
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nunu & Willump that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, she decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 46.1%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Nunu & Willump and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be careful when finding Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Nunu & Willump players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Katarina synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 46.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.1% win rate overall.
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