Nunu & Willump with Zed
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Zed
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Nunu & Willump Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Nunu & Willump Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Zed, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Zed on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Nunu & Willump in team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Zed
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Zed is a below average teammate for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Nunu & Willump and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be careful when arranging Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Zed together, you will not be giving your other allies enough utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Zed synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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