Nasus vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Nasus
based on 1,849 Nasus vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Annie
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 Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Nasus vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several critical Nasus against Annie counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Annie. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nasus or Annie?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Annie, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Annie.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate compared to Annie, when facing one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Annie.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Annie matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Annie. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Annie 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 stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nasus versus Annie build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Annie than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Annie with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Annie as Nasus, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nasus vs Annie LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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