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 Nunu & Willump Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Briar, he gets a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Briar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Briar on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Briar is a not very good companion for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same side as Nunu & Willump, they drops their win rate by -1.8% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Nunu & Willump and Briar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Briar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Briar together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to pair well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Nunu & Willump and Briar synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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