Illaoi with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Illaoi and Nunu & Willump
based on 1,649 Illaoi with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Nunu & Willump
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Nunu & Willump, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Nunu & Willump
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal ally for Illaoi that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a below average teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Illaoi and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players don't need to be careful when arranging Nunu & Willump teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Illaoi and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be granting your side enough utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Illaoi and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 47.4% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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