Kennen Vs Nasus (as Kennen)
How do you play this matchup? He heals plenty, so do you harass him out of lane, or just let him farm and focus on farming for yourself? Harassing seems to entail more risk and potentially missed farm
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I have a little philosophy with Kennen that whatever happens you want to keep your gold acquisition as high as possible as it's the difference between your ult is broken 1v5 teamfights or your existence is dilluted support. A lot of Kennens get really wrapped up in poking they miss a lot of cs that'll eventually impact their teamfighting maybe. A master Kennen should be able to do both at the same time.
Focus mostly on abusing the w mark autos you get. Save W active to refresh or extend the mark timer. This gives you time to get another 4th auto. That's a stun and a free Q. That's the basic pattern I use.
I personally loath playing versus Nasus because it's unlikely you'll ever solo kill him whittling him with poke through his sustain and teleport if you're not playing a heavy hitter like Olaf or Darius for example.
So maybe what you can try to do is cs accurately and stage for a gank. Ping lane when your jungler is on your side and his lane is pushing. Or just play to get other lanes ahead. I even sometimes farm the first 3 waves pushed to tower and try for a cheeky level 3 jungle scout invade when I know my opponent is probably just an unkillable brick. Sometimes you find a low hp jungle and get a lucky double buffs or just ruin their route (you've also done a good job revealing them and at least in high elo this information helps your own jungle and other laners). Be mindful how direct their kill power is on you though, but most jungles don't have dorans to start.
dont let nasus farm for free freeze the lane at your tower and stop him from farming with your range control the waves and push him out. Easy as that.
You never let nasus "just farm". Outfarming nasus is basically impossible, his only counter is keeping him from stacking. Keep him from farming, poke him down even if it means missing farm yourself, keep him behind.
Early on try to zone and harass as much as possible as he's most vulnerable at that time. Once Nasus gets 1 MR item it's over though. Then you might as well farm up enough so you can kill the other enemies that are actually killable. Also ask for ganks and don't try to push him in unless you want to roam, go back or kill the tower.
Buy Executioner's.
Buy dorans blade at start, hurrass, he tries slowing you for the auto, delay your stun until last moment when he's about to auto you, He will start to try to run, continue to auto.
note: Make sure you hit your star and set up for the stun incase he decides to attack you.
This is probably one of nasus worst m/u's or should be if you play your cards well.
If you can get him to hide a but fro mherassment then herass.
Sometimes the best way to beat a Nasus is not to beat him but to make everyone else on his team lose so hard that he can not carry that weight.