Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nunu & Willump helps Irelia perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Irelia in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Irelia that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a relatively poor ally for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Irelia and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be careful when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Irelia and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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