Nasus with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Nasus and Vel'Koz
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Nasus Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Nasus Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Vel'Koz, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Vel'Koz provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Nasus in team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Vel'Koz
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Nasus that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Nasus. By being on the same side as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Nasus and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nasus and Vel'Koz together, you may not be granting your team a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Nasus and Vel'Koz synergy build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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