Nasus vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Nasus
based on 3,426 Nasus vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Nasus vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Nasus against Draven matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Draven..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Draven
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Who is Better, Nasus or Draven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when trying to fight Draven, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter to Draven.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Draven, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Draven.
Moreover, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Draven matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nasus is an above average counter to Draven. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average gets a similar amount of CS as Draven. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus versus Draven build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Draven than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Draven as Nasus, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, 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 Draven clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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