Aphelios with Nasus
How to Synergize Aphelios and Nasus
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Aphelios Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Nasus
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Aphelios Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Nasus, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Nasus provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Nasus on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Nasus
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no top synergy for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Nasus is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.6%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Nasus that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Nasus has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nasus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Nasus together, you will not be providing your other allies very much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to synergize with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Aphelios and Nasus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nasus with Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.