Kai'Sa vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Kai'Sa
based on 4,702 Kai'Sa vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Nasus
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Kai'Sa versus Nasus matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nasus..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nasus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Nasus
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 44.7% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Nasus.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Nasus, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Nasus.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Nasus. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Nasus during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nasus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Nasus build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Nasus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.7% when playing against Nasus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Nasus as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kai'Sa vs Nasus counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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