Akali with Nasus
How to Synergize Akali and Nasus
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Akali Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Akali with Nasus
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Nasus Will Play
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.
Akali Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Akali in LoL
The Akali Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nasus helps Akali perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Nasus, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Nasus does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Nasus on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of covering Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no top synergy for Akali that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Nasus is a very typical ally for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Akali and Nasus that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Nasus comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Akali and Nasus together, you may not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali in order to synergize with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Akali and Nasus synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nasus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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