Nasus vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Nasus
based on 4,170 Nasus vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Nasus vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Nasus vs. Leona matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona..
Nasus often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Leona
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Who is Better, Nasus or Leona?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Nasus does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Leona.
Additionally, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should 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 Leona. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Leona as Nasus, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nasus vs Leona clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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