Nasus with Xayah
How to Synergize Nasus and Xayah
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Nasus Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Nasus Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Nasus perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Xayah, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Xayah does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Xayah 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 with Xayah.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Xayah on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Xayah does a decent job of protecting Nasus in team fights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no ideal companion for Nasus that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Xayah is a terrible ally for Nasus. By locking into the same team as Nasus, she lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 46.1%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Nasus and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Nasus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nasus and Xayah together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to synergize with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nasus and Xayah synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 46.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nasus players 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 used for Nasus and Xayah pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.1% win rate overall.
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