Karthus vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Karthus
based on 1,459 Karthus vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Nasus
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Karthus in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Karthus versus Nasus counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in deathsassists.
Karthus typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Nasus
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Who is Better, Karthus or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 44.6% win rate. Thus, Karthus makes a bad counter to Nasus.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate compared to Nasus, when facing one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karthus into Nasusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ 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.
Karthus is a trash counter for Nasus. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karthus against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karthus in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often gets less CS compared to Nasus. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Karthus versus Nasus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Karthus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Nasus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 44.6% when playing against Nasus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Nasus as Karthus, Karthus players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Karthus vs Nasus battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.6% winrate overall.
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