Nunu & Willump with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Malzahar
based on 2,546 Nunu & Willump with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Nunu & Willump Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Malzahar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Malzahar does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Malzahar
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Nunu & Willump and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players should be very careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nunu & Willump and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Nunu & Willump and Malzahar synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Malzahar 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 rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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