Nasus with Alistar
How to Synergize Nasus and Alistar
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Nasus Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Nasus Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Nasus perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Alistar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Alistar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Alistar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Alistar is a not very good teammate for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Nasus and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players should be careful when arranging Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nasus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your side very much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nasus and Alistar synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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