Nasus vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Nasus
based on 2,825 Nasus vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Nasus vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Nasus vs. Irelia matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Irelia
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Who is Better, Nasus or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Irelia, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Irelia.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Irelia matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Irelia. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Irelia build consist of Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Dead Man's Plate. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.8% battling Irelia with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Irelia 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Nasus vs Irelia counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Nasus are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.