Rammus vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Rammus
based on 2,130 Rammus vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Nasus
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Advice to Win Against Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Rammus vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several critical Rammus versus Nasus counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nasus. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Rammus often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nasus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Nasus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually fairs equally well when taking on Nasus, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes an ok counter to Nasus.
While Rammus does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Nasus.
Moreover, Rammus has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter for Nasus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rammus against Nasus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rammus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Nasus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Rammus versus Nasus build include Thornmail, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Nasus than with many other common builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nasus as Rammus, Rammus players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rammus vs Nasus face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nasus as Rammus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.