Thresh with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Thresh and Nunu & Willump
based on 3,324 Thresh with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Nunu & Willump
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 Thresh perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nunu & Willump helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of protecting Thresh during teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Nunu & Willump
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a not very good ally for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.5%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Thresh and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nunu & Willump teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you should focus on increasing 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 Thresh to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Thresh and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Thresh and Nunu & Willump pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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