Maokai vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Maokai
based on 4,581 Maokai vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Nasus
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Maokai against Nasus matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nasus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Nasus
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Who is Better, Maokai or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Nasus.
Moreover, Maokai also has a very large 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Nasus matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a good counter to Nasus. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai in order to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Maokai versus Nasus build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Nasus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Nasus as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Maokai vs Nasus face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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