Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
The Orianna Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This could signal that Nunu & Willump provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of covering Orianna during team fights.
There is no top companion for Orianna that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, Nunu & Willump is a relatively poor ally for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 45.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Orianna and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Orianna players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Orianna and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Orianna and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nunu & Willump with Orianna are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.