Nunu & Willump with Akali
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Akali
based on 4,963 Nunu & Willump with Akali pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Akali
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Nunu & Willump Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nunu & Willump sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Akali, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Akali does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Akali on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal ally for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical companion for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 46.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Nunu & Willump and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be cautious when lining up Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Nunu & Willump players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Akali together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Nunu & Willump and Akali synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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