Nasus vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Nasus
based on 4,030 Nasus vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Shaco
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 Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Nasus vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Nasus vs. Shaco matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shaco..
Nasus normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Shaco
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Who is Better, Nasus or Shaco?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Shaco, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter to Shaco.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Shaco, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Shaco.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Shaco matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Shaco. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates much more CS as Shaco. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well 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 do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nasus versus Shaco build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Shaco than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 51.3% battling Shaco with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Shaco as Nasus, Nasus players should use 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 combinations players used for Nasus vs Shaco counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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