Vel'Koz vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Vel'Koz
based on 2,310 Vel'Koz vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Nasus
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Win Against Nasus
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.
Vel'Koz vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Vel'Koz versus Nasus matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Nasus
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Nasus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Nasus, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Nasus, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Nasusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Nasus matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter for Nasus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Nasus build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Nasus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Nasus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Nasus as Vel'Koz, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Vel'Koz vs Nasus face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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