Nasus with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Nasus and Rek'Sai
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Nasus Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Nasus Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rek'Sai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Nasus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Rek'Sai
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 51.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Nasus and Rek'Sai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Rek'Sai teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Nasus and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to work well with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Nasus and Rek'Sai synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.1% helping carry Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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