Nasus vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Nasus
based on 2,871 Nasus vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Amumu
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 Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Nasus vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Nasus against Amumu matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Nasus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Amumu
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Who is Better, Nasus or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter to Amumu.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Amumu.
Furthermore, Nasus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Amumu matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Amumu. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nasus versus Amumu build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Amumu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.0% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Amumu as Nasus, Nasus players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nasus vs Amumu fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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