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.
Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
The Nunu & Willump Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Naafiri, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Naafiri supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Naafiri on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Naafiri does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump during teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Naafiri is a superb companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, they increases their win rate by 3.1% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong strategic relationship between Nunu & Willump and Naafiri that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Naafiri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Nunu & Willump players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nunu & Willump and Naafiri together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump and Naafiri synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump and Naafiri pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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