Nasus with Maokai
How to Synergize Nasus and Maokai
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Nasus Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Nasus Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Nasus perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is paired with Maokai, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Maokai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top companion for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nasus and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Nasus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Nasus and Maokai together, you will not be giving your team much attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Nasus and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Maokai 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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