Nasus vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Nasus
based on 4,406 Nasus vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Veigar
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 Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Nasus vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Nasus against Veigar matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Veigar..
Nasus typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Veigar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Veigar
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Who is Better, Nasus or Veigar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Veigar, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter for Veigar.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate compared to Veigar, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Veigar.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Veigar matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Veigar. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Veigar.
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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 Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow 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 as Veigar. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Veigar build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Trinity Force. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Veigar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 51.2% battling Veigar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Veigar as Nasus, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nasus vs Veigar counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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