Xin Zhao with Nasus
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Nasus
based on 3,164 Xin Zhao with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xin Zhao Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Nasus
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nasus helps Xin Zhao perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Nasus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nasus doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played alongside Nasus 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 Nasus.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Nasus on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nasus does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no ideal ally for Xin Zhao that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Nasus is a very typical companion for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 50.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Nasus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nasus has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players need to be careful when finding Nasus allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Xin Zhao players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Xin Zhao and Nasus together, you will not be providing your side enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xin Zhao to pair well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Nasus synergy build consist of Titanic Hydra, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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