Nasus vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Nasus
based on 1,242 Nasus vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Nasus vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Nasus against Zilean matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean..
Nasus usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nasus or Zilean?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Zilean, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a good counter for Zilean.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Zilean.
Furthermore, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Zilean matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually picks up more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nasus versus Zilean build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Zilean with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zilean 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nasus vs Zilean face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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