Nunu & Willump with Poppy
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Poppy
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Nunu & Willump Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Nunu & Willump Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Poppy, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Poppy helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Poppy on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Poppy does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Poppy
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top companion for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Poppy is a terrible ally for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same side as Nunu & Willump, she drops their win rate by -3.9% to 43.6%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Nunu & Willump and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you should be cautious when finding Poppy teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Poppy together, you will not be granting your side very much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Nunu & Willump and Poppy synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Poppy than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 43.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.6% winrate overall.
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