Nasus vs Ekko
How to Beat Ekko as Nasus
based on 5,101 Nasus vs Ekko matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Ekko Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ekko as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Ekko
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 Ekko
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
Nasus vs Ekko Counter Stats
How to Counter Ekko with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Nasus versus Ekko matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ekko’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ekko..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ekko. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Ekko
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Who is Better, Nasus or Ekko?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ekko, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter to Ekko.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Ekko, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Ekko.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ekko. 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 Ekko matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Ekko. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Ekko.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates more CS compared to Ekko. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nasus versus Ekko build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Ekko than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Ekko with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ekko 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 combinations that we analyzed for Nasus vs Ekko matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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