Nunu & Willump with Shen
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Shen
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Nunu & Willump Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Shen
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Nunu & Willump Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Shen, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Shen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Shen on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal ally for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Shen is a below average ally for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same side as Nunu & Willump, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 45.5%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Nunu & Willump and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players don't need to be cautious when finding Shen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nunu & Willump players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Shen together, you may not be giving your team much AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump and Shen synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 45.5% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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