[Champion] Nasus - Page 9

On June 17 2011 01:33 Slayer91 wrote:
It's not that they're OP, it's that either they can be absolutely terrible, ok, or most overpowered in game based on how high they can stack their Q. It's hard to balance.

On June 17 2011 05:19 Brees wrote:
instead of theorycrafting you should just try it.

ive easily handled all the characters you just named, including teemo, corki, etc. ranged AD is probably the easiest

On June 17 2011 06:00 BouBou.865 wrote:

Despite my 72% winrate with Nasus and him being my main, a good corki can bully you around so hard that Nasus just isn't a good pick anymore. Maybe if the rest of their team screams 'PICK NASUS', but you won't have a good lane, at all. Same with Teemo.

How do you play these matchups, Brees?

On June 17 2011 06:20 gtrsrs wrote:


nasus has naturally high regen thanks to his lifesteal on the ever-growing Q, so you can just play passively while you farm Q
once you hit a point (it's hard to say when but you can just feel it), just wait for the opponent's cooldowns to go down, wither them, walk up and hit them with siphon strike. you'll do like 1/4 of their health and if they try to stand and fight you pop your ult and smash the shit out of them. ranged carries are really really easy for nasus. as with most melee dps, the only ranged carry i ever struggle with is boots-first TF because he can kite so easily with gold card and you'll never get a good shot on him

On June 17 2011 07:06 zalz wrote:


But what if the enemy just plays it proper? His lifesteal doesn't do much when each time you go for a last-hit the enemy proceeds to take off 20% off your HP.

Nasus needs to hit a minion to kill it. That might seem very normal but when you think about it it's actually pretty rare that a champion has to physically walk over and melee-hit champions as his only way of farming.

Nasus isn't quik, he can't blink, he doesn't have anything to let him move around. If you go to hit a minion then the enemy can fuck you over hard.


I really don't see how Nasus can lane against a strong or even a decent laner considering how hard you get punished every time you try to get a Q, let alone if you try to farm outside of that with auto-atacks.

His lifesteal really doesn't help him at all on the lane. Every time you try to take advantage of it the enemy will punish you so hard that you are forced to leave. Eventually your hp gets so low that you can't even cross the walk-up (Nothing > enemy minions) without being killed on the way there.

Some champions can even stand at a safe distance whilst Nasus goes insanely into their range. Ezreal for example. When Nasus isn't even close to Ezreal he is easily within 3 auto atacks and 2 Q's worth of range in the time that he walks up and back from the minion lane.


I really don't feel that Nasus works against players that know he can't fight back for the most part.

On June 17 2011 07:28 Slayer91 wrote:
Actually I think the important thing is that he's bad at doing "mid laner things" like roaming around and generally beasting the early-midgame, while he's very going at doing "solo top" things like farming all day and killing their tower and just beasting everyone once you get your core together, like irelia and nidalee for example do.

On June 17 2011 08:49 Two_DoWn wrote:

Yeah, because having a superslow and armor shred make him a terrible midgame fighter...


even with an underfarmed q, sheen+ e makes q hits like a boss midgame.

On June 17 2011 09:06 Tadzio wrote:
Aw, man... games when I build up 350+ bonus damage on Q are the only reason I play Nasus. I live for moments when early-game monsters like Annie complain in /all that it's not "fair" I can tear down a tower solo in 5 seconds. I gotta wait 30-40 minutes to get that strong and until then I get kited to shit, cry me a river about "fair"...

Only recent game I remember having significant trouble in lane with Nasus was a 2v2 versus Poppy&Maokai with a Kennen lanemate who didn't do much but try to steal my Q lasthits. Once they hit six they could towerdive me whenever Poppy's ult was up, and Maokai's E did a decent job keeping me off the creeps, especially with the threat of Poppy's E. I suppose that's when you just level up E and stay well away from Poppy. I'm low elo tho, so my experience on Nasus' lane viability isn't terribly worth mentioning. I don't really fear anyone 1v1 tho. Maybe Brand, since I'm not very good at dodging his spells yet. But in that case I just pump E and steal lasthits from my tower.