Master Yi with Nasus
How to Synergize Master Yi and Nasus
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Master Yi Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Nasus
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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.
Master Yi Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi 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, Master Yi sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nasus helps Master Yi perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi is an ally to Nasus, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Nasus doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played together with Nasus on the same team, 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 Master Yi plays with Nasus on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nasus does a poor job of protecting Master Yi during teamfights.
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect companion for Master Yi that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nasus is a very typical teammate for Master Yi. By being on the same team as Master Yi, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Master Yi and Nasus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Master Yi. That means you should be cautious when lining up Nasus teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Master Yi and Nasus together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Master Yi in order to synergize with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Master Yi and Nasus synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Master Yi incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Master Yi boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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