Veigar vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Veigar
based on 4,406 Veigar vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Nasus
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Veigar versus Nasus matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nasus..
Veigar normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Nasus. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Nasus
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Who is Better, Veigar or Nasus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when playing against Nasus, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a bad counter to Nasus.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Nasusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 Veigar 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 late stage team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Nasus. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Veigar versus Nasus build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Nasus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Nasus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nasus as Veigar, Veigar players should use 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 sets that we analyzed for Veigar vs Nasus matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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