Nasus with Annie
How to Synergize Nasus and Annie
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Nasus Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Annie
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Nasus Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Annie, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Annie provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Annie on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Annie does a poor job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nasus that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Annie is a good companion for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, she improves their win rate by 1.9% to 52.2%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Nasus and Annie that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be careful when lining up Annie comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nasus and Annie together, you will not be granting your team much cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Nasus to pair well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Nasus and Annie synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Annie than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 52.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nasus and Annie pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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