Nunu & Willump with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Xin Zhao
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Nunu & Willump Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Nunu & Willump Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Xin Zhao provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump in team fights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no one best synergy for Nunu & Willump that will always be his top ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a pretty good ally for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same side as Nunu & Willump, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 48.9%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Nunu & Willump and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Xin Zhao together, you may not be granting your other allies much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nunu & Willump to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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