Nasus with Taric
How to Synergize Nasus and Taric
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Nasus Taric Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Taric
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Nasus Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus is an ally to Taric, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Taric does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taric.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Taric on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Taric does a decent job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Taric
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Taric?
There is no top champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Taric is a decent ally for Nasus. By playing on the same side as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Nasus and Taric that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Taric teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Nasus and Taric together, you will not be granting your other allies enough support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to pair well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Nasus and Taric synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 runes players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Taric with Nasus are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.