Caitlyn with Nasus
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Nasus
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Caitlyn Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Nasus
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Nasus, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Nasus does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Nasus on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect companion for Caitlyn that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Nasus is a very typical teammate for Caitlyn. By playing on the same team as Caitlyn, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 49.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Caitlyn and Nasus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nasus allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Caitlyn players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Caitlyn and Nasus together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Caitlyn to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Caitlyn and Nasus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Nasus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nasus with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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