Nasus vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Nasus
based on 4,060 Nasus vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Nasus vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Nasus vs. Malphite matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite..
Nasus normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Malphite. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Malphite
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Who is Better, Nasus or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Malphite, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a good counter for Malphite.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate than Malphite, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nasus into Malphite.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Malphite matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a good counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Malphite.
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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 Malphite during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Malphite build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Malphite than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Malphite with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Malphite 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 builds players used for Nasus vs Malphite battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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