Nasus vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Nasus
based on 1,890 Nasus vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Alistar
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.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Nasus vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several important Nasus versus Alistar matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar..
Nasus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Alistar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Alistar
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Who is Better, Nasus or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Alistar.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often racks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nasus versus Alistar build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Alistar as Nasus, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nasus vs Alistar LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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