Sylas with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Sylas and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,290 Sylas with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Nunu & Willump
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.
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.
Sylas Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is paired with Nunu & Willump, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Nunu & Willump supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same side, 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 Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Sylas in teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Nunu & Willump
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top ally for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Nunu & Willump is a below average companion for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Sylas and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players don't need to be careful when arranging Nunu & Willump teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Sylas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Sylas and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Sylas and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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