Nasus with Shaco
How to Synergize Nasus and Shaco
based on 3,869 Nasus with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Nasus Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is an ally to Shaco, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Shaco helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Shaco on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no perfect ally for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Shaco is a very typical ally for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Nasus and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you must be careful when arranging Shaco comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Shaco together, you will not be giving your team enough utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to pair well with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus and Shaco synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Shaco than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Shaco with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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