Sylas with Nasus
How to Synergize Sylas and Nasus
based on 3,347 Sylas with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Nasus
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas 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 worsening shows that Nasus helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is an ally to Nasus, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Nasus doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nasus.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Nasus
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect synergy for Sylas that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Nasus is a pretty good companion for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Sylas and Nasus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you should be careful when lining up Nasus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Nasus together, you will not be granting your other allies much crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to work well with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Sylas and Nasus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nasus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Sylas and Nasus pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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