Nasus vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Nasus
based on 4,549 Nasus vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Nasus vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Nasus against Varus counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus..
Nasus typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Varus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Varus
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Who is Better, Nasus or Varus?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter for Varus.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate than Varus, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Varus.
Furthermore, Nasus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Varus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a 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 decent counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Varus.
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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 Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically gets a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Varus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Trinity Force. When Nasus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Varus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.9% battling Varus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Varus 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nasus vs Varus clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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