Gragas with Nasus
How to Synergize Gragas and Nasus
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Gragas Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Nasus
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Nasus, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This may signal that Nasus does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Nasus 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 Nasus.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Nasus on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nasus does a poor job of covering Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nasus is a decent companion for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a good bond between Gragas and Nasus that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players must be very careful when arranging Nasus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas to pair well with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Gragas and Nasus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nasus than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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