Zeri vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Zeri
based on 1,158 Zeri vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Zeri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital Zeri against Nasus counter stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nasus..
Zeri often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zeri and Nasus
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Who is Better, Zeri or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more complex character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Nasus.
Additionally, Zeri has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a trash counter for Nasus. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zeri 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nasus. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Nasus build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri included at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Nasus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Nasus with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Nasus as Zeri, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zeri vs Nasus matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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