Nasus vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Nasus
based on 4,820 Nasus vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Nasus vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Nasus versus Kayle matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Nasus typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kayle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kayle
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kayle?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Kayle, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a good counter for Kayle.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Kayle, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Kayle.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kayle 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 teammates during teamfights.
Nasus is a good counter to Kayle. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus to counter Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus most often gets a similar amount of CS as Kayle. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nasus versus Kayle build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kayle than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 52.8% battling Kayle with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kayle 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 players used for Nasus vs Kayle matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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