Laning Vs Nasus is a paradox

DarwinTheory·Jan 14, 2018·2 votes·739 views

You either poke him super hard and hope you can delay his late game long enough for your team to do something as he farms under his tower but suffer constant threat of deaths because of a wither + ganks +ult which mean you're almost guaranteed dead early game.

Allow him to farm and ”build tank!” whilst your team mates fail to get a lead, ignore top in the hope he goes away then are shocked when he gets 3rd tower and proceeds to kill 3 team mates at once under your inhibitor after free farming 20 minutes.

That's about the depth of a modern Nasus game. It's sad LOL has come down to which teams have the most broken champs now. The current game design is horrible.

4 Comments

ShahamutJan 14, 20181 votes

Nasus is only relevant if his team is ahead. Otherwise he is nothing.

It's pretty much the state of top lane right now. You only matter if your bot lane is ahead. You will not carry.

To use Nasus as an example: I was top vs Nasus as Yasuo. Enemy jungler was there constantly. My jungler was non-existent in top. With all his help, Nasus was easily able to 1v1 me early. Took my tower, jungler returns, 2nd tower gone. My bot lane also took two towers.

Team fight: Fed Nasus loses to my teams fed adc as long as we peel. We win game. Nasus was huge. I asked for help, but didn't get any. But since jungle was top whole lane phase+, my team did the right thing and dominated the bottom half of the map. Just the way it goes.

Baron BarianJan 14, 20181 votes

Clearly, you have no idea what it means to stop a Nasus.

Harden StepbackJan 14, 20181 votes

How abouy jax? way harder to deal with.

D RabbitJan 14, 20181 votes

You should try Gnar into Nasus. I know I personally struggled a lot versus Nasus players because it felt like on a lot of champs you could bully him early, but once he hit 6 and got his ult he could almost always suddenly 1v1 you thanks to how much of a powerspike his ult is.

I've had a lot of success with Gnar though. In mini form Gnar can harass and poke better than most and he's super mobile allowing you to jump away if Nasus goes for a Wither engage on you (which usually goes terrible for him if you keep auto attacking and kiting with Press the Attack). The real kicker for me though is that if you've been bullying the Nasus early as you should be, he can't 1v1 you when you're in mega form, even with his ult. Especially if you fight him near terrain, which you ought to as a Gnar.

So Gnar seems perfect to me, you can harass him in mini and there's little he can do about it, if he tries to fight you you're going to hurt him badly with Press the Attack, then you can comfortably fight him while in mega form. Gnar is also really safe when it comes to ganks, just keep vision and hop away when the enemy jungler comes.

Of course, Nasus will outscale Gnar eventually, he outscales pretty much anything eventually, but as Gnar I find that you can remain a good deal stronger than the enemy Nasus for a long time and that's pretty much all you can ask of a champ when going against Nasus.