Lucian with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Lucian and Nunu & Willump
based on 5,243 Lucian with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Nunu & Willump
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his 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 Lucian perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is an ally to Nunu & Willump, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with 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 Lucian plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of covering Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no top ally for Lucian that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a relatively poor teammate for Lucian. By being on the same side as Lucian, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Lucian and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be cautious when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Lucian and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be providing your other allies very much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn 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 most crucial items to prioritize in your Lucian and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Kraken Slayer, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Lucian and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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