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.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Nasus against Rumble counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rumble..
Nasus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rumble. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when trying to fight Rumble, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter to Rumble.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Rumble, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Rumble.
Moreover, Nasus also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Rumble matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Rumble. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Rumble.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Rumble. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nasus versus Rumble build include Divine Sunderer, Spirit Visage, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Rumble than with many other common builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rumble as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Nasus vs Rumble face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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