Nasus vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nasus
based on 955 Nasus vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Nasus vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Nasus versus Kalista counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Kalista.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kalista matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nasus is a great counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Kalista 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nasus versus Kalista build include Thornmail, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kalista as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nasus vs Kalista counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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