Nunu & Willump with Sylas
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Sylas
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Nunu & Willump Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Nunu & Willump Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sylas helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Sylas, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Sylas does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Sylas on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best synergy for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Sylas is a very typical companion for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 47.6%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Nunu & Willump and Sylas that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players must be careful when arranging Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Sylas together, you will not be providing your other allies very much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to pair well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Nunu & Willump and Sylas synergy build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Sylas than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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