Nasus with Brand
How to Synergize Nasus and Brand
based on 7,062 Nasus with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Brand
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Nasus Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Nasus perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Brand, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Brand provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Brand 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 alongside Brand.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Brand on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top ally for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Brand is a good teammate for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Nasus and Brand that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Brand allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Nasus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Nasus and Brand together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Nasus to synergize with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Nasus and Brand synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 53.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, 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 team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
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