Nasus with Aphelios
How to Synergize Nasus and Aphelios
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Nasus Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Nasus Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Nasus perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is an ally to Aphelios, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nasus and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Nasus. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Nasus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nasus and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your team a lot of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nasus and Aphelios synergy build consist of Thornmail, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Nasus players should equip 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 picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Aphelios with Nasus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.