Nasus with Talon
How to Synergize Nasus and Talon
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Nasus Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Talon
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Nasus Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Nasus perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Talon, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Talon supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Talon on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nasus that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Talon is a very typical ally for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Nasus and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players must be very careful when finding Talon teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nasus and Talon together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Nasus and Talon synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Nasus players 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 builds players used for Nasus and Talon pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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