Darius vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Darius
based on 4,493 Darius vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Nasus
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Darius versus Nasus matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus..
Darius typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nasus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Nasus
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Who is Better, Darius or Nasus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes a good counter to Nasus.
While Darius does have a higher winrate compared to Nasus, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Darius into Nasus.
Moreover, Darius also has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Nasus matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Darius is a decent counter to Nasus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Darius to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Darius versus Nasus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Darius combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Nasus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nasus as Darius, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Darius vs Nasus LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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