Illaoi with Nasus
How to Synergize Illaoi and Nasus
based on 321 Illaoi with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Nasus
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Nasus, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change could signal that Nasus doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Nasus on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Nasus
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Nasus is a relatively poor ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Illaoi and Nasus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players must be very careful when arranging Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Illaoi and Nasus together, you may not be granting your team enough utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Illaoi in order to work well with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Illaoi and Nasus synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nasus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Nasus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi and Nasus pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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