Nasus vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Nasus
based on 6,917 Nasus vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Nasus vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Nasus against Brand matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Nasus normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Brand
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Who is Better, Nasus or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Nasus does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Brand.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Brand build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Brand than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 48.7% battling Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Brand as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nasus vs Brand matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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