Nasus vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Nasus
based on 1,373 Nasus vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Nasus vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Nasus against Jayce matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jayce..
Nasus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Jayce
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Who is Better, Nasus or Jayce?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter for Jayce.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Jayce, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nasus into Jayce.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Jayce matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nasus is an above average counter to Jayce. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often picks up a similar amount of CS as Jayce. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nasus versus Jayce build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Jayce than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Jayce with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Jayce 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 builds players chose for Nasus vs Jayce fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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