Nunu & Willump with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench
based on 1,907 Nunu & Willump with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Tahm Kench
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.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Nunu & Willump Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tahm Kench helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Tahm Kench, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Tahm Kench helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top synergy for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a very typical companion for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you must be cautious when finding Tahm Kench teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench together, you may not be providing your side enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump and Tahm Kench pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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