Nasus with Orianna
How to Synergize Nasus and Orianna
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Nasus Orianna Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Nasus Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Orianna helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Orianna, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Orianna provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Orianna on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Orianna does a poor job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no top ally for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Orianna is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Nasus and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players must be cautious when finding Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nasus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nasus and Orianna together, you may not be providing your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus to pair well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Nasus and Orianna synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nasus players should equip 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 sets players picked for Nasus and Orianna pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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