Leona vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Leona
based on 4,170 Leona vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Nasus
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Leona against Nasus matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nasus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Nasus
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Who is Better, Leona or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Nasus, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Nasus.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Nasus matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Nasus. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Nasus. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Leona versus Nasus build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.1% battling Nasus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Nasus as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Leona vs Nasus counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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