Nasus with Akshan
How to Synergize Nasus and Akshan
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Nasus Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Nasus Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akshan helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Akshan, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Akshan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Akshan 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 with Akshan.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Akshan is a relatively poor teammate for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, they drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Nasus and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Akshan teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Nasus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Nasus and Akshan together, you will not be giving your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Akshan 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Nasus and Akshan synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Akshan than with most other common builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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