Zilean with Nasus
How to Synergize Zilean and Nasus
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Zilean Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Nasus
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nasus helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Nasus, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nasus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nasus does a poor job of covering Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Nasus
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zilean that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Nasus is a pretty good companion for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, he improves their win rate by 2.2% to 52.9%. This signals that there is a good bond between Zilean and Nasus that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nasus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Zilean players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zilean and Nasus together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Zilean and Nasus synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nasus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 52.9% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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