Nasus with Kindred
How to Synergize Nasus and Kindred
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Nasus Kindred Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Nasus Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kindred helps Nasus perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Kindred, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Kindred doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Kindred on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no top companion for Nasus that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Kindred is a relatively poor companion for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, they lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nasus and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kindred comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Nasus and Kindred together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kindred teammate, you should focus on maximizing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to work well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Nasus and Kindred synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kindred than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Nasus players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kindred with Nasus are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.