Alistar with Nasus
How to Synergize Alistar and Nasus
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Alistar Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nasus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Nasus, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Nasus does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Nasus 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 Nasus.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Nasus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nasus does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nasus
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect ally for Alistar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Nasus is a very typical companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Alistar and Nasus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Nasus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Alistar and Nasus together, you may not be providing your side very much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Alistar and Nasus synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nasus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nasus with Alistar are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.