Nasus with Gragas
How to Synergize Nasus and Gragas
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Nasus Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Nasus Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is paired with Gragas, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Gragas provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Gragas on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Nasus during team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no ideal synergy for Nasus that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Gragas is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Nasus and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be cautious when lining up Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nasus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nasus and Gragas together, you will not be granting your team very much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus in order to pair well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Nasus and Gragas synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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