Nunu & Willump with Rakan
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Rakan
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Nunu & Willump Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Nunu & Willump Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump plays on the same team as Rakan, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Rakan on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal ally for Nunu & Willump that will always be his ideal ally. However, Rakan is a very typical companion for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nunu & Willump and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be cautious when arranging Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Nunu & Willump and Rakan together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to work well with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Nunu & Willump and Rakan synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating 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 Nunu & Willump and Rakan pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Rakan with Nunu & Willump are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.