Zed with Nasus
How to Synergize Zed and Nasus
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Zed Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nasus
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Nasus, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nasus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Nasus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nasus does a poor job of protecting Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no top champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nasus is a very typical ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Nasus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Zed players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Nasus together, you may not be giving your side enough utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nasus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to pair well with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Zed and Nasus synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nasus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nasus with Zed are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.