You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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 Yorick Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yorick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Yorick perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nunu & Willump helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Yorick during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Yorick that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he lowers their win rate by -3.3% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Yorick and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Yorick and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Yorick to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Yorick and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Yorick and Nunu & Willump pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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