Amumu with Nasus
How to Synergize Amumu and Nasus
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Amumu Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Nasus
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nasus helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu tries to synergize with Nasus, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nasus provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Nasus on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best synergy for Amumu that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Nasus is a good companion for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Amumu and Nasus that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be very careful when finding Nasus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Amumu players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Amumu and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nasus teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Amumu in order to pair well with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Amumu and Nasus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nasus with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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