Nasus vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Nasus
based on 745 Nasus vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Nasus vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Nasus versus Elise counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Elise
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Who is Better, Nasus or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when playing against Elise, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes an ok counter to Elise.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate compared to Elise, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Elise.
Moreover, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Elise 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 team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Elise. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually accumulates much more CS as Elise. Champions who on average don't get 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 properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nasus versus Elise build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Elise than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Elise as Nasus, Nasus players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nasus vs Elise counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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