Nasus vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Nasus
based on 2,390 Nasus vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Illaoi
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Nasus vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Nasus against Illaoi counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi..
Nasus often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Nasus or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Nasus does have a much lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nasus into Illaoi.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nasus is a terribly counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nasus versus Illaoi build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Illaoi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 45.3% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Illaoi as Nasus, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Nasus vs Illaoi clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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