Vi vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Vi
based on 3,163 Vi vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Nasus
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Vi in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Vi against Nasus counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus..
Vi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nasus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vi and Nasus
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Who is Better, Vi or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vi usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Vi makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Vi does have a higher win rate than Nasus, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vi into Nasus.
Additionally, Vi has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vi vs Nasus matchups, Vi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vi is a decent counter to Nasus. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vi against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vi to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi often racks up a lot less CS relative to Nasus. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vi versus Nasus build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Nasus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vi had an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Nasus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Nasus as Vi, Vi players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Vi vs Nasus clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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