Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox 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, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Aatrox during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Nunu & Willump is a not very good companion for Aatrox. By being on the same side as Aatrox, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Aatrox and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players don't need to be careful when arranging Nunu & Willump allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aatrox and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your other allies much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Aatrox and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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