Nasus with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Nasus and Kai'Sa
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Nasus Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Nasus Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Nasus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kai'Sa supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Kai'Sa 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 Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Kai'Sa
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no one best synergy for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad companion for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, she drops their win rate by -3.9% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Nasus and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kai'Sa teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Nasus players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Nasus and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your side enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nasus and Kai'Sa synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Nasus players 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 runes players chose for Nasus and Kai'Sa pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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