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.
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
The Nunu & Willump Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lee Sin helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Lee Sin, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Lee Sin helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a very bad teammate for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 42.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nunu & Willump and Lee Sin that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you must be cautious when arranging Lee Sin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Lee Sin together, you will not be giving your team much support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to work well with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Lee Sin synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Lee Sin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 42.9% helping carry Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nunu & Willump and Lee Sin pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lee Sin with Nunu & Willump are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.