Nasus vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Nasus
based on 2,253 Nasus vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Nasus vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Nasus against Kindred matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Nasus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Kindred
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Who is Better, Nasus or Kindred?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when trying to fight Kindred, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a great counter to Kindred.
While Nasus does have a much higher win rate compared to Kindred, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Kindred.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Kindred matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a great counter for Kindred. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average gets much more CS as Kindred. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nasus versus Kindred build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kindred than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when countering Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kindred 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 combinations we have analyed for Nasus vs Kindred matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.2% winrate overall.
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