Nasus vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Nasus
based on 1,467 Nasus vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kassadin Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Nasus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Kassadin as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Nasus vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Nasus against Kassadin matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kassadin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kassadin
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Nasus or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when taking on Kassadin, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Kassadin.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter to Kassadin. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Kassadin.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nasus
Additional Information for Nasus Players
How We Calculated Our Nasus vs Kassadin Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Kassadin build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Force of Nature. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kassadin than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Kassadin with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kassadin as Nasus, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nasus vs Kassadin clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
If you want to get Nasus vs Kassadin tips and builds for a an individual skill level, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides shown are computed using every match run with these champs.