Yorick with Nasus
How to Synergize Yorick and Nasus
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Yorick Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Nasus
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick 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 worsening shows that Nasus helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Nasus, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Nasus does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Nasus on the same team, 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.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Nasus on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Yorick during team fights.
Synergies between Yorick and Nasus
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect ally for Yorick that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Nasus is a good ally for Yorick. By playing on the same side as Yorick, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Yorick and Nasus that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Yorick. That means Yorick players don't need to be careful when lining up Nasus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Yorick players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Yorick and Nasus together, you will not be giving your side much utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to work well with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Yorick and Nasus synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Yorick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nasus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Yorick players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
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