Nunu & Willump with Nautilus
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Nautilus
based on 3,458 Nunu & Willump with Nautilus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Nautilus
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 Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Nunu & Willump Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Nautilus, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nautilus helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Nautilus 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 Nautilus.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Nautilus on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump during team fights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top companion for Nunu & Willump that will always be his top ally. Yet, Nautilus is a very typical companion for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nunu & Willump and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you must be cautious when lining up Nautilus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nunu & Willump players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nunu & Willump and Nautilus together, you may not be giving your side a lot of AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Nautilus synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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