Nasus with Zilean
How to Synergize Nasus and Zilean
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Nasus Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Nasus Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Nasus perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is paired with Zilean, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Zilean on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top ally for Nasus that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Zilean is a good ally for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 52.9%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Nasus and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nasus and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Nasus and Zilean synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 rune combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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