Nasus vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Nasus
based on 3,281 Nasus vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Ahri
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Nasus vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Nasus against Ahri matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri..
Nasus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Ahri
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Who is Better, Nasus or Ahri?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Ahri, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Ahri.
Additionally, Nasus has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This 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 Nasus vs Ahri matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nasus is an above average counter for Ahri. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Ahri. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nasus versus Ahri build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Ahri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when playing against Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ahri as Nasus, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nasus vs Ahri face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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