Nasus vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Nasus
based on 6,810 Nasus vs Vayne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Nasus vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Nasus against Vayne matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vayne..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Vayne. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Vayne
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Who is Better, Nasus or Vayne?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vayne, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes an ok counter to Vayne.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Vayne, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Vayne.
Additionally, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Vayne matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Vayne. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Vayne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus to counter Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Vayne. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Vayne build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Vayne than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 50.8% when playing against Vayne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vayne as Nasus, you 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Nasus vs Vayne fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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