Nasus with Lucian
How to Synergize Nasus and Lucian
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Nasus Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Nasus Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Lucian, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Lucian does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Lucian on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lucian does a decent job of covering Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his top ally. However, Lucian is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Nasus and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Lucian teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Nasus and Lucian together, you probably will not be granting your side much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to pair well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Nasus and Lucian synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Lucian than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nasus and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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