Katarina with Nasus
How to Synergize Katarina and Nasus
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Katarina Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nasus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nasus helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Nasus, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Nasus does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Nasus on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nasus does a poor job of covering Katarina during team fights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Nasus is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and Nasus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Katarina players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Katarina and Nasus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nasus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Katarina and Nasus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Nasus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nasus with Katarina are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.