Zed with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Zed and Nunu & Willump
based on 3,292 Zed with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nunu & Willump
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.
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.
Zed Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Nunu & Willump, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nunu & Willump supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with 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.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he on average receives 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 covering Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Nunu & Willump
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Nunu & Willump is a not very good teammate for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 46.0%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Zed and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when lining up Nunu & Willump teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Zed and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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