Leona with Nasus
How to Synergize Leona and Nasus
based on 3,915 Leona with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Leona with Nasus
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 Leona perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Nasus, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This may signal that Nasus supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nasus.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Nasus on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nasus does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no ideal synergy for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Nasus is a very typical companion for Leona. By being on the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Leona and Nasus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be cautious when finding Nasus allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Leona and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Nasus synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Nasus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nasus with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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