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.
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Nasus against Jarvan IV counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jarvan IV..
Nasus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Jarvan IV. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when playing against Jarvan IV, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter to Jarvan IV.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Jarvan IV.
Furthermore, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Jarvan IV matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter to Jarvan IV. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Jarvan IV.
To truly master Nasus to counter Jarvan IV 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically picks up much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nasus versus Jarvan IV build include Divine Sunderer, Frozen Heart, and Gargoyle Stoneplate. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Jarvan IV than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Jarvan IV with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Jarvan IV 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nasus vs Jarvan IV counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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