Nasus with Ekko
How to Synergize Nasus and Ekko
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Nasus Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Ekko
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 Ekko Will Play
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
Nasus Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, 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 Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ekko helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Ekko, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Ekko supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Ekko on the same side, 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 Ekko.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Ekko on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Ekko does a decent job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Ekko is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Nasus and Ekko that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Ekko comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Nasus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nasus and Ekko together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Ekko teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to synergize with Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Nasus and Ekko synergy build include Trinity Force, Force of Nature, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Ekko than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Ekko with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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