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 Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
The Nunu & Willump Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tristana helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Tristana, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Tristana doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together with Tristana 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 alongside Tristana.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Tristana on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Tristana is a very typical ally for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 46.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Nunu & Willump and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players don't need to be careful when lining up Tristana teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Tristana together, you will not be giving your team much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tristana teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nunu & Willump in order to pair well with Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Nunu & Willump and Tristana synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Tristana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Tristana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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