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.
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
The Nunu & Willump Ezreal synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ezreal, 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 Ezreal. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ezreal helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Ezreal, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Ezreal does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Ezreal on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ezreal. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ezreal.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Ezreal on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ezreal does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Ezreal is a terrible ally for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he lowers their win rate by -4.5% to 43.0%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Nunu & Willump and Ezreal that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ezreal has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players need to be very careful when enlisting Ezreal teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Ezreal together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ezreal ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to pair well with Ezreal during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Ezreal synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ezreal than with most other common builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 43.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ezreal with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Ezreal with Nunu & Willump are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.