Nasus with Akali
How to Synergize Nasus and Akali
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Nasus Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Akali
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Nasus Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is an ally to Akali, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Akali does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Akali on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Akali does a decent job of covering Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal companion for Nasus that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Akali is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, she decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 49.4%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Nasus and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players must be very careful when arranging Akali comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Nasus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Nasus to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Nasus and Akali synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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