Nunu & Willump with Kayn
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Kayn
based on 372 Nunu & Willump with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Nunu & Willump Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Kayn, he gets a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kayn helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kayn.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Kayn on the same side, he often receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kayn does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Kayn
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Kayn is a terrible companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, he decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 43.3%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Nunu & Willump and Kayn that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players should be cautious when arranging Kayn allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Nunu & Willump and Kayn together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Kayn synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kayn than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 43.3% when playing alongside Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.3% winrate overall.
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