Zed vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Zed
based on 4,074 Zed vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nasus
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Zed versus Nasus matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nasus. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nasus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Nasus
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Who is Better, Zed or Nasus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Nasus, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter to Nasus.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Nasus, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Nasusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a trash counter to Nasus. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nasus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Zed versus Nasus build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Nasus as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Zed vs Nasus battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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