Nasus with Kayn
How to Synergize Nasus and Kayn
based on 4,878 Nasus with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Nasus Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Kayn, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could signal that Kayn helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kayn.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kayn on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Kayn
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Kayn is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.7%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Nasus and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players should be careful when arranging Kayn allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Nasus and Kayn together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus to pair well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nasus and Kayn synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Trinity Force. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Kayn with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kayn with Nasus are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.