Nasus with Gangplank
How to Synergize Nasus and Gangplank
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Nasus Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Nasus Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Gangplank, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gangplank does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Gangplank on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Gangplank
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Gangplank is a below average teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Nasus and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you must be cautious when arranging Gangplank teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Gangplank together, you will not be providing your team a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Nasus and Gangplank synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Nasus players 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 rune sets players used for Nasus and Gangplank pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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