Skarner vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Skarner
based on 359 Skarner vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Nasus
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Skarner versus Nasus counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nasus..
Skarner normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nasus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Nasus
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Who is Better, Skarner or Nasus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Nasus.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Skarner is a garbage counter to Nasus. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically racks up a lot less CS as Nasus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Skarner versus Nasus build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Nasus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Nasus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Nasus as Skarner, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Skarner vs Nasus counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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