Rumble with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Rumble and Nunu & Willump
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Rumble Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Nunu & Willump
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Advice to Understand How Nunu & Willump Will Play
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.
Rumble Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Rumble perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble is paired with Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nunu & Willump helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Rumble during teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Nunu & Willump
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top champion pairing for Rumble that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a terrible ally for Rumble. By locking into the same side as Rumble, he lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 45.1%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Rumble and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Rumble players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rumble and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rumble to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Rumble and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rumble boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
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