Nasus with Olaf
How to Synergize Nasus and Olaf
based on 271 Nasus with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Nasus Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Nasus perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Olaf, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Olaf does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Olaf on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of covering Nasus during team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Olaf
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no ideal companion for Nasus that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Olaf is a not very good ally for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Nasus and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Olaf teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Nasus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Nasus and Olaf together, you may not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus to work well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Nasus and Olaf synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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