Stack Guideline for Nasus?
I'm attempting to main Nasus and I'm just wondering, what is a general amount of stacks you want for; 10 min, 20 min, 30 min and 40 minutes?
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10 mins you should aim for 100, 15 250, 20 300. Anything above that is ideal but not required.
Also, don't greed for stacks ; remember this easy chart while laning : xp>gold>stacks
Press Q on dying minion. Stacks gained.
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at 20 minutes if you dont have at least 250 stacks you're behind quite a bit. If you have over 350 stacks you're killing it.
CS would be the same as anyone, i.e. 10 cs/min is the ideal. More is possible if you're a god, but your csing mechanics are probably pretty tight if you're hitting 9-10 cs/min.
Q stacks on the other hand are the more nuanced thing for nasus which I'm less familiar with guidelines on in terms of what is good/average/behind, since (as a side effect of your cdr being a factor) your stacks/min for the first 10 min is gonna be quite a bit less than stacks/min in mid/late.
From what I've seen the absolute minimum line of usefulness is 100 stacks every 10 minutes. If you are doing worse than that you will never be able to do Nasus things, and this goes for odd builds like klepto where you don't stack minions that much. Ideal for a stack focused build is 200-300 every 10 minutes.
If you're AP your stack count helps but ultimately doesn't matter that much, and if you are full AD and you're not feeding you have enough stacks.
Hi!
First thing is the runes. Play with Precision-Press the attack-Triumph-Bloodline-Last Stand + Sorcery-The Ultimate Hat-Transendence. The attackspeed you get from Precision might seem wierd, but its actually=cooldown reduction, it will save you 0.5 seconds from 1 Q which at lvl 1 is equal to 7%cdr. Press the attack after 3 autoattacks will buff your q-s a lot and there is bloodline to add some lifesteal. So basically with these runes you have no counter.
As for the stacks, start with boots and 4 potions. This way if you have a champion who pokes a lot, you can go get your stacks and back taking less dmg + you have the potions to get your health back. Its very important to start like this, because you will want to play defensive and stack under tower and to do that you must have done well with the early stacks. After you went b and got the Sheen, then just Q the minions everytime you have Q ready. If you see the Q cooldown is about to reset and the minion is not ready for stack then help it out with some Autoattacks so that when Q is ready you can stack.
Then comes the 3rd phase which is you let the enemy poke you but just keep on stacking without attacking them. This way they will lose all of their mana and you just wait for their mana bar to be empty to get a free kill. After you kill the enemy toplaner, push, but always keep stacking. What I mean is attack the tower with normal Autoattacks and then Q every minion that comes. Dont worry about the tower, because if you play like this and stack good you can take all towers until the inhib within 1 min.
This Strategy is the best I have come up with so far, with my record being set at 23 mins - 700 stacks :) Good Luck
Assuming you'd want at least two stacks from each wave, you're probably lookin at like, at least equal to your CS by ten min. If you can get more than awesome but harass won't always allow it.
As your CD gets lower you can basically stack off a whole wave so I figure past the 10 min mark it starts getting a little ridiculous, like at LEAST +9 stacks per wave.