Akali vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Akali
based on 6,885 Akali vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Nasus
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Akali against Nasus counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this set of champions. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nasus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nasus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Nasus
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Who is Better, Akali or Nasus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when taking on Nasus, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Akali does have a lower winrate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Nasusas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Nasus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali in order 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often gets a similar amount of CS as Nasus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Akali versus Nasus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Nasus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.3% battling Nasus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nasus as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Akali vs Nasus matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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