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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Nasus Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Anivia helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Anivia, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Anivia supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Anivia 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 with Anivia.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Anivia on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Anivia is a good teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, she increases their win rate by 1.2% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Nasus and Anivia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Nasus. That means you need to be cautious when finding Anivia allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Anivia together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Anivia teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nasus to work well with Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus and Anivia synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Anivia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when playing alongside Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Nasus players should use 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Anivia with Nasus are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.