Nasus with Garen
How to Synergize Nasus and Garen
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Nasus Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Garen
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Nasus Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Garen, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Garen does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Garen 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 Garen.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect synergy for Nasus that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Garen is a below average companion for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Nasus and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be careful when enlisting Garen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Nasus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Nasus and Garen together, you may not be granting your team very much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Nasus and Garen synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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 builds players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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