Long story short, Nocturne's W does not block the damage of, nor does it activate off of being hit by Nasus's Q. I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug or if it is supposed to be there, but if I'm being honest if RIOT ever wants Nocturne to be competitive I think fixing this is a key component.
Thanks for Your time. I will be linking to another post I am about to write shortly which will contain my ideas on how to fix Nocturne and make him more competitive.
Totally agree.
Spell shields only block things that would trigger spell effects, and since nasus's Q doesn't apply spell effects, and only applies on hit effects, the game treats it as an auto for some stupid reason. Same way with a lot of other spells that augment autos too.
I agree and although this is probably a grey area that needs to be addressed ( It IS an ability, even if it augments an autoattack, Nami's E hits aren't blocked by spellshields either.) , Riot probably won't get around to it for a long while/until it becomes a huge issue (in typical riot form of fix priorities) because Abilities that apply their damage based on AA's are much harder to itemize against, as it's basically AA piggybacked AP dmg.
Seems pretty cheese to me.
Sorry but no. His spell shield gives him plenty of safety from every other ability in the game . On hit abilities are an extension of a characters AA and are not coded as a spell. Nasus's Siphoning Strike, Gangplank's Parley, Trundle's Chomp and some others but there are not so many of these abilities so it's not like Nocturne's always going to be against one of these characters. You are basically asking for a mini version of Kayle's ult which he doesn't need. And, honestly if you are going toe to toe with a strong Nasus as Nocture you deserve to die. Nocturnal is a skrmisher/dive assassin and thrives at back line attacks to take a high priority squishy targets off the board. If you are dueling a dueler you will die probably every time.
