Akshan vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Akshan
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Akshan vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Nasus
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Nasus
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
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.
Akshan vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several strategic Akshan versus Nasus counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Nasus
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nasus, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes an ok counter to Nasus.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate compared to Nasus, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Nasus.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a decent counter for Nasus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually gets a similar amount of CS as Nasus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Nasus build include Kraken Slayer, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better versus Nasus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Nasus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Nasus as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Akshan vs Nasus LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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