Syndra vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Syndra
based on 2,411 Syndra vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Nasus
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Syndra versus Nasus counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nasus..
Syndra normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Nasus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Nasus
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Who is Better, Syndra or Nasus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when trying to fight Nasus, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes a bad counter for Nasus.
While Syndra does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Syndra into Nasusas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Syndra is a bad counter for Nasus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to counter Nasus during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Syndra versus Nasus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Nasus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 47.4% when countering Nasus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Nasus as Syndra, Syndra players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Syndra vs Nasus fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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