Since nasus is being the tumor of toplane again this is how you deal with him

Spoofghoul··6 votes·952 views

You don't

Well more or less

You can never prevent him out scaling you

Therefore you want to do the following

Pick something which is better in teamfights Try and delay his ramp up as best as possible, this only works early on though, unless you completely roflstomp him early game then you can crash his Ramp up to the point he will never get relevant anymore Anyway while you delay his ramp up you can 100% expect jungler ganks early on since if they get the nasus ahead they wont ever have to deal with that lane again since he outscales his opponent anyway

As a jungler you can look to countergank here As a laner make sure to just gank midlane

Basically you want to get waveclear and shove him in he will stick to the wave and Q stack, big deal Meanwhile you go steal enemy jungle camps buffs if possible and gank mid all the time

Go to lane shove it in gank mid and steal jungle

Rather then dealing with nasus just deal with his team by making the enemy mid and jungler's lifes miserable If nasus keeps following you hurray he isn't stacking if he doesn't congrats you put 2 enemies behind and get your mid carry fed and your jungler ahead Either way you win If you also have a champ better at teamfighting then you win there too

All you need besides that is enough bulk to just hug turret and the waveclear so he cannot splitpush while your team wins for you

There is literally nothing that the stupid nasus can do about this all you need to know is that when fighting vs nasus you don't fight nasus but cripple his team instead because in the end it comes down to who has the stronger team, since nasus main thing is his outscaling splitpush and if your team is ahead this has like 0 impact and forces the nasus to help his team in which case you can use his own strategy against him, he can't really do the same early on because he needs those stacks to outscale you asap or his splitpush will fall flat

Because what nasus does best is afk push lane knowing nobody can fight him solo while his team is free to do whatever they want

All you need to do to deal with nasus is to get ahead of this and make it so your gets rolling first nasus lose 100% to this since there isn't anything he can do about it besides sacrifice his main strength which would make him kinda useless and he would lose because of that this literally takes all the fun out of it for the nasus and hopefully the guy will stop pestering people with him

Ofc there will be these times where you get stuck with a bunch of potatoes in that case just wait in fountain because the nasus won by default in which case the only play left is to also take the fun out of it for the nasus which is a dick move i know but sometimes dick moves are needed to deal with dick champs

In the if you follow this advice no nasus will ever have fun playing nasus again and he will probably end up getting reworked into something more tolerable to lane against since his playrate will drop below nonexistance

Sincerely someone who dislikes playing vs nasus

15 Comments

Lord Phazanor 3 votes

Actually you should never shove the lane to Nasus' turret. That's what he want, because when this happens he can just stack his Q and Cs under turret without having to worry about you hitting him the second he presses q.
It's better to let him push to your turret and freeze there. Either he plays safe and misses a ton of farm or he makes the mistake of wanting to farm and he gets ganked (or solo killed by you if you have an early game champ or a good duelist, or anything that shits on Nasus while he isn't stacked).

Tychusfindlay9181 votes

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Actually you should never shove the lane to Nasus' turret. That's what he want, because when this happens he can just stack his Q and Cs under turret without having to worry about you hitting him the second he presses q.
It's better to let him push to your turret and freeze there. Either he plays safe and misses a ton of farm or he makes the mistake of wanting to farm and he gets ganked (or solo killed by you if you have an early game champ or a good duelist, or anything that shits on Nasus while he isn't stacked).

Actually until level 3-4 you DO want to shove nasus into his turret and harrass him under it as well if you can since his Q cooldown is really long until he gets a few points into it.

The problem is watching out for ganks which wither can be really good at setting up.

Tyrone Lannister2 votes

I like to pick either fiora or teemo and look to abuse his weak early game for everything its worth. Especially with fio, as you can outrade him easily with vital procs

Crystalysk2 votes

Don't even try, board is full of players complaining about Nasus that don't want to learn how to play versus Nasus.

Shahamut2 votes

freeze lane outside of tower, get lots of ganks. put him behind early, and you can solo him later.

This is easier said than done, however, because you also need to be someone (or your jungler does) who scales pretty well, since Nasus will typically just buy HP/Resist and then be unkillable in lane 1v1.

I played a game the other day vs a Nasus, and I played Yasuo, since midlane also wanted to play Swain XD

My Lee Sin (?) Jungle saw that I was constantly freezing the wave near my tower, so he just came top 2 or 3 times early. After that point, I had 1 kill and 2 assists, as well as a 50+ farm lead. Nasus never caught up.

Its a team effort to be sure. Unless you can absolutely crush him early, its a team effort.

Spoofghoul1 votes

well that works but it does depend on your jungler, team effort beats solo effort for sure

And this strat works well

i just use mine to avoid having to need jungler help and have my jungler gank mid/bot while i do the same

He can literally have 1000 stacks ill have the armor and hp and sustain to shrug them off later so as long as my team can beat theirs and i can pretty much halt his splitpush attempts his 1000 stacks are worthless really especially if you can peel him in the teamfight as well

Fear the Kayn2 votes

His wither slow is just waaaay too much for a point and click IMO. It seriously feels like a fucking stun.

Death by Glamour1 votes

Trundle is a good teamfight counter

Romans VI XXIII1 votes

I just spin.

Garen

Iręlía1 votes

Pick sejuani top, thank me later.

Deathhawk8881 votes

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LyingOnLine1 votes

Oh noes, Nasus is finally decent for once! It must be the worst thing ever!

Salamencę1 votes

Pushing Nasus under tower is absolutely the worst thing you can possibly do. He gets to free farm safely if you do that. Just freeze the wave by your tower and harass him when he tries to last hit.

y0r1ck1 votes

This is stupid. Instead, pick a lane bully and let him push. Freeze the wave on your side and push him off of creeps. Eventually crash the wave and dive or back or roam. But never afk push into Nasus.

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