Shaco with Nasus
How to Synergize Shaco and Nasus
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Shaco Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Nasus
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Nasus, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Nasus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nasus.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of covering Shaco during teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Nasus
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best ally for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Nasus is a very typical companion for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Shaco and Nasus that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nasus has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be careful when lining up Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Shaco players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Shaco and Nasus together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Shaco and Nasus synergy build consist of Hubris, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nasus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nasus with Shaco are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.