Graves with Nasus
How to Synergize Graves and Nasus
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Graves Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Graves with Nasus
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Nasus, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nasus does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Nasus on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no ideal ally for Graves that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Nasus is a very typical companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Graves and Nasus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be careful when arranging Nasus comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Nasus together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Graves in order to synergize with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Graves and Nasus synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nasus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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