Nunu & Willump with Sona
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Sona
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Nunu & Willump Sona Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Sona
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Nunu & Willump Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sona helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Sona, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Sona does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Sona on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump during team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Sona
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top ally for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Sona is a good companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same side as Nunu & Willump, she raises their win rate by 2.4% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nunu & Willump and Sona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players don't need to be careful when finding Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Sona together, you will not be providing your other allies enough protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Nunu & Willump and Sona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Sona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should take 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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