Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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 Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nunu & Willump helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same team, 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 alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a relatively poor companion for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same side as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Heimerdinger and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Heimerdinger and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be granting your team much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nunu & Willump with Heimerdinger are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.