Nunu & Willump with Leona
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Leona
based on 3,057 Nunu & Willump with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Leona Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Leona
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Nunu & Willump Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Leona, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Leona helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Leona on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Leona
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect companion for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Leona is a decent companion for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she increases their win rate by 1.9% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Nunu & Willump and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Nunu & Willump players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Nunu & Willump and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Nunu & Willump and Leona synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players 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 runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump and Leona pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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