Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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 Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is an ally to Nunu & Willump, she observes a noticable increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nunu & Willump provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Poppy in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Poppy that will always be her best ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a terrible companion for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he lowers their win rate by -6.1% to 43.6%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Poppy and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when finding Nunu & Willump allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Poppy players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Poppy and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to work well with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Poppy and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 43.6% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.6% win rate overall.
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