Nasus with Kassadin
How to Synergize Nasus and Kassadin
based on 1,318 Nasus with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Nasus Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Nasus perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Kassadin, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Kassadin does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kassadin on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top companion for Nasus that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Kassadin is a not very good teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 47.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Nasus and Kassadin that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players should be cautious when arranging Kassadin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Nasus and Kassadin together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Nasus and Kassadin synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Kassadin with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nasus and Kassadin pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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