Nasus with Zed
How to Synergize Nasus and Zed
based on 3,255 Nasus with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Nasus Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Nasus perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zed provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Zed 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 alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Zed on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nasus and Zed
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Nasus that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Nasus and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means you should be cautious when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Nasus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Nasus and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nasus in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Nasus and Zed synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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