Nasus with Galio
How to Synergize Nasus and Galio
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Nasus Galio Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Galio
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Nasus Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Galio helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Galio, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could indicate that Galio helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Galio.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Galio on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Galio does a poor job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Galio
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Galio?
There is no top ally for Nasus that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Galio is a very typical companion for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nasus and Galio that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Galio allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Nasus and Galio together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Galio ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to work well with Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nasus and Galio synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Galio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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