Nasus vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Nasus
based on 4,597 Nasus vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Nasus vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Nasus against Graves counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Graves
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Who is Better, Nasus or Graves?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when taking on Graves, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Graves.
Moreover, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually gets much more CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Graves build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Graves with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Graves as Nasus, Nasus players 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 Graves counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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