Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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 Nami 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, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Nami perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami 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.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of covering Nami during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nami that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a below average teammate for Nami. By locking into the same team as Nami, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Nami and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players don't need to be very careful when arranging Nunu & Willump allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Nami players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nami and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nami in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Nami and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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