Nasus vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Nasus
based on 1,321 Nasus vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Qiyana as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Qiyana
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.
Nasus vs Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some vital Nasus against Qiyana counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Qiyana..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Qiyana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Qiyana
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Who is Better, Nasus or Qiyana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Qiyana, with a 56.0% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a fantastic counter to Qiyana.
While Nasus does have a much higher winrate than Qiyana, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Nasus into Qiyana.
Additionally, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Qiyana matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a great counter for Qiyana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Qiyana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Qiyana 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 tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Qiyana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nasus versus Qiyana build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Qiyana than with most other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 56.0% when playing against Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Qiyana as Nasus, you should take 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 Qiyana clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 56.0% win rate overall.
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