Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Sett against Nasus counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus..
Sett typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nasus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sett usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Sett makes a good counter to Nasus.
While Sett does have a higher winrate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Sett also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Sett into Nasus.
Moreover, Sett has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sett vs Nasus matchups, Sett is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sett is a good counter to Nasus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sett against Nasus.
If you would like to truly master Sett to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sett versus Nasus build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Sett combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Nasus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sett had an average win rate of 52.6% battling Nasus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Nasus as Sett, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Sett vs Nasus face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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