Nasus vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Nasus
based on 4,702 Nasus vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Nasus vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Nasus vs. Kai'Sa counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa..
Nasus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kai'Sa?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 55.3% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a fantastic counter to Kai'Sa.
While Nasus does have a much higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nasus into Kai'Sa.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kai'Sa matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a great counter to Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Kai'Sa.
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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 Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nasus versus Kai'Sa build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kai'Sa than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 55.3% when playing against Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Kai'Sa as Nasus, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nasus vs Kai'Sa counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kai'Sa as Nasus are given for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.