Brand vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Brand
based on 6,917 Brand vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Nasus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Nasus
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Brand against Nasus counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nasus..
Brand often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Nasus
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Who is Better, Brand or Nasus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Nasus, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter to Nasus.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Nasus.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Nasus matchups, Brand is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Nasus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often picks up less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Brand versus Nasus build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Nasus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.3% battling Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nasus as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Brand vs Nasus clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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