Rakan with Nasus
How to Synergize Rakan and Nasus
based on 2,990 Rakan with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Nasus
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Understand How Nasus Will Play
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.
Rakan Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nasus helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Nasus, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nasus helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Nasus on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Nasus
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rakan that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Nasus is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.8%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Rakan and Nasus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players must be very careful when arranging Nasus comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Rakan and Nasus together, you probably will not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to pair well with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Rakan and Nasus synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nasus with Rakan are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.