Gragas vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Gragas
based on 1,754 Gragas vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Nasus
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Gragas versus Nasus matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus..
Gragas usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Nasus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Nasus
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Who is Better, Gragas or Nasus?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when playing against Nasus, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a poor counter for Nasus.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate compared to Nasus, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Nasus.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Nasus. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically picks up less CS compared to Nasus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Nasus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nasus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Nasus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nasus as Gragas, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gragas vs Nasus clashes, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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