Bard with Nasus
How to Synergize Bard and Nasus
based on 2,837 Bard with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nasus
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nasus helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Nasus, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nasus does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Nasus 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 Nasus.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nasus does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no ideal companion for Bard that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nasus is a very typical ally for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Bard and Nasus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nasus has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nasus comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Bard and Nasus together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to synergize with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Bard and Nasus synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Bard and Nasus pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nasus with Bard are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.