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.
Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.
Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.
The stats provided here show some critical Nasus against Ornn matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ornn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ornn..
Nasus usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ornn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when playing against Ornn, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes an ok counter for Ornn.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Ornn, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Ornn.
Moreover, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ornn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Ornn matchups, Ornn is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter for Ornn. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Ornn.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Ornn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ornn. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Ornn build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Ornn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Ornn with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ornn 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 sets players used for Nasus vs Ornn counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ornn as Nasus are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.