Maokai with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Maokai and Nunu & Willump
based on 2,652 Maokai with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nunu & Willump
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack 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.
Maokai Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Nunu & Willump does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai 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 alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nunu & Willump
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a terrible teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -3.7% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Maokai and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when arranging Nunu & Willump teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nunu & Willump than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Maokai and Nunu & Willump pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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