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.
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
The Nunu & Willump Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jhin helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Jhin, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Jhin provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Jhin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Jhin.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Jhin on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Jhin is a good ally for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Nunu & Willump and Jhin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jhin has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you need to be careful when finding Jhin teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Jhin together, you will not be providing your other allies much engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Jhin teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump to pair well with Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Nunu & Willump and Jhin synergy build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Anathema's Chains. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Jhin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jhin with this build.
To have the greatest chance 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Jhin with Nunu & Willump are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.