Akshan vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Akshan
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Akshan vs Nasus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Akshan
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Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Akshan vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Akshan versus Nasus counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Nasus..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives less damage than Nasus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nasus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Nasus, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Nasus.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akshan is a garbage counter to Nasus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akshan versus Nasus build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Nasus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Nasus with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Nasus as Akshan, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Akshan vs Nasus counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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