Nasus vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Nasus
based on 1,591 Nasus vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Nasus vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Nasus against Sivir counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sivir..
Nasus typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Sivir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Sivir
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Who is Better, Nasus or Sivir?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Sivir, with a 55.3% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a fantastic counter to Sivir.
While Nasus does have a much higher winrate compared to Sivir, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Sivir.
Moreover, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Sivir matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nasus is a great counter to Sivir. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Sivir.
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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 Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Sivir. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Nasus versus Sivir build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Sivir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 55.3% when playing against Sivir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Sivir as Nasus, Nasus players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nasus vs Sivir counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.3% win rate overall.
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