Nasus vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Nasus
based on 1,754 Nasus vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Nasus vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several important Nasus versus Gragas matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Nasus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nasus or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Gragas.
Moreover, Nasus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Gragas matchups, Nasus is the better champion 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 to Gragas. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average racks up more CS compared to Gragas. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nasus versus Gragas build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Gragas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 52.1% battling Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Gragas 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nasus vs Gragas clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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