Nasus with Graves
How to Synergize Nasus and Graves
based on 4,218 Nasus with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Graves
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Nasus Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Nasus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Graves, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Graves does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Graves on the same team, 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 alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Graves on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical ally for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Nasus and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Graves teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Nasus and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Nasus and Graves synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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