Nasus vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Nasus
based on 3,047 Nasus vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Nasus vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Nasus against Lee Sin matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Nasus or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Nasus does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Lee Sin matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a great counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically picks up much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nasus versus Lee Sin build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Lee Sin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when playing against Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Lee Sin 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 that we analyzed for Nasus vs Lee Sin matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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