Nasus with Katarina
How to Synergize Nasus and Katarina
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Nasus Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Nasus Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Nasus perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Katarina, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Katarina 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 Katarina.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Katarina on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top companion for Nasus that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Katarina is a below average teammate for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Nasus and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players need to be cautious when finding Katarina teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Nasus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nasus and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Nasus and Katarina synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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