Nasus with Tristana
How to Synergize Nasus and Tristana
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Nasus Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Nasus Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tristana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tristana helps Nasus perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Tristana, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Tristana does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Tristana 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 Tristana.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Tristana on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Tristana
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nasus that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Tristana is a below average ally for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Nasus and Tristana that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tristana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nasus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Tristana together, you will not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Nasus and Tristana synergy build include Spirit Visage, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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