Nunu & Willump with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz
based on 1,790 Nunu & Willump with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Nunu & Willump Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Nunu & Willump perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This could signal that Vel'Koz does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal companion for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a pretty good teammate for Nunu & Willump. By being on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means you must be cautious when arranging Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Nunu & Willump and Vel'Koz synergy build include Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players 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 combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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