Nasus with Rakan
How to Synergize Nasus and Rakan
based on 2,990 Nasus with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Nasus Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rakan helps Nasus perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Rakan, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Rakan on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Rakan
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no perfect synergy for Nasus that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Rakan is a very typical companion for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Nasus and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rakan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nasus and Rakan together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus to synergize with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nasus and Rakan synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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