Nasus with Yasuo
How to Synergize Nasus and Yasuo
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Nasus Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Nasus Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Yasuo, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Yasuo doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yasuo.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Yasuo on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no one best companion for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Yasuo is a good teammate for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Nasus and Yasuo that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Nasus. That means you should be cautious when arranging Yasuo teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Yasuo together, you will not be providing your team very much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to work well with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Nasus and Yasuo synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Dead Man's Plate. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Yasuo than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Nasus players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nasus and Yasuo pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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