How to play as Nasus if someone is playing aggresive vs you?

spombjop·Jun 7, 2016·2 votes·805 views

For example you're playing vs Jax or Tryndamere and he is engaging on you all the time. Should u fight back or waste your mana or just try to farm while he is slowly taking your hp down.

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z63XnLCMwXJun 7, 20162 votes

A good jax will always counter strike your Q. Tryn shouldn't be too bad since you can just wither him. Just let the wave push and ask for ganks. Certain champs has favourable and unfavourable matchups, though I find Gnar to be the most annoying of all match-up for nasus.

Ozag the MightyJun 7, 20161 votes

Gnar is annoying for any top lane match up...

spombjopJun 7, 20161 votes

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A good jax will always counter strike your Q.

Good Jax will always stand in near low hp minion so u use Q on him and not minion. U will missclick sometimes + he will punish u for that

EndlessSorcererJun 7, 20162 votes

Against Tryndamere specifically, you generally just want to sit in your minions so that he takes creep aggro whenever he hits you and keep the wave near your tower so he is both overextended and can't harass you without taking tower shots. You will crush him in the mid-game after you have Iceborn Gauntlet (or even before if you stack correctly), so he's a pretty easy match-up.

Against Jax, you have to watch for his harass combo (AA minions twice, then Q-AA with R-W) after he hits level 6. However, he isn't really a bad match-up as the game progresses. Whenever he uses his ultimate to fight you, you can just Wither him and back off and you can 1v1 him throughout the game.

z63XnLCMwXJun 7, 20161 votes

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Against Tryndamere specifically, you generally just want to sit in your minions so that he takes creep aggro whenever he hits you and keep the wave near your tower so he is both overextended and can't harass you without taking tower shots. You will crush him in the mid-game after you have Iceborn Gauntlet (or even before if you stack correctly), so he's a pretty easy match-up.

Against Jax, you have to watch for his harass combo (AA minions twice, then Q-AA with R-W) after he hits level 6. However, he isn't really a bad match-up as the game progresses. Whenever he uses his ultimate to fight you, you can just Wither him and back off and you can 1v1 him throughout the game.

Not lategame, jax outduel nasus in a lategame fight. Once jax gets item 3124 item 3146 item 3078 item 3139 item 3143 item 3047 nasus can't outduel him.

spombjopJun 7, 20161 votes

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Not lategame, jax outduel nasus in a lategame fight. Once jax gets nasus can't outduel him.

He can. Only champs that Nasus can't outduel late are Yi and Olaf.

z63XnLCMwXJun 7, 20161 votes

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He can. Only champs that Nasus can't outduel late are Yi and Olaf.

Fiora can get over 100% hp true damage so there's also her.

MLDzXnRRRJun 7, 20161 votes

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can get over 100% hp true damage so there's also her.

Hey, Nasus can 1shot anyone with enough farm. It happens rarely, because most games he can't freefarm or the games are over in 30 minutes. The old Fiora (the parry wasn't telegraphed + untargetable ult) was better vs Nasus... You will die now before you manage to proc 2 vitals.

z63XnLCMwXJun 7, 20161 votes

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Hey, Nasus can 1shot anyone with enough farm. It happens rarely, because most games he can't freefarm or the games are over in 30 minutes. The old Fiora (the parry wasn't telegraphed + untargetable ult) was better vs Nasus... You will die now before you manage to proc 2 vitals.

I'd doubt it. Fiora can parry off nasus first Q giving her a two second window to land four vitals which is definately doable.

Masala ChaiJun 7, 20161 votes

I've never seen hat, no matter how fast I lunge or reset with Bladework.

TheOvermindJun 7, 20161 votes

Wrong. Full build ww also beats him: has higher sustain and insane dps plus his ulti to use at the end of the duel. Also Darius cuz armor pen passive plus cleaver plus 1k true damage dunk. Also jax beats anyone in the game late game 1v1

RogueWillJun 7, 20162 votes

Easiest way.... Freeze your lane near your turret. If they go aggressive on you, Wither them and disengage and heal up. post 6 when they can dice just do the same, when they dive wither and walk away, let the turret hit them. If you are still having trouble get a second point of wither to disencourage them and have an easier disengage.

spombjopJun 7, 20161 votes

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Easiest way.... Freeze your lane near your turret. If they go aggressive on you, Wither them and disengage and heal up. post 6 when they can dice just do the same, when they dive wither and walk away, let the turret hit them. If you are still having trouble get a second point of wither to disencourage them and have an easier disengage.

W costs mana

spombjopJun 7, 20161 votes

W costs mana and u can't really freeze against any trynd because he will push u in. U're forced to farm under turret or die.

QuephaJun 7, 20163 votes

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U're forced to farm under turret

OK? Nasus is great at farming under turret.

Masala ChaiJun 7, 20161 votes

Unpopular idea, take 1 mana regen glyph.

It actually works, I take it on ADC and it seems to make a lot of difference whether I go OOM in lane or not.

Support BοtJun 7, 20161 votes

Masteries full hp regen. Quints life steal. One hit 30% hp back and you just stop matter about harass. Next thing is when you have enemy Teemo or something squishy that harass you hard, just max your E. You will be still able to stack Q, while he has no opportunity to survive.

spombjopJun 7, 20161 votes

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Masteries full hp regen. Quints life steal. One hit 30% hp back and you just stop matter about harass. Next thing is when you have enemy Teemo or something squishy that harass you hard, just max your E. You will be still able to stack Q, while he has no opportunity to survive.

well trynd early does insane dmg, 1 lucky crit at lvl 1-3 and you're dead, hp regen and lifesteal won't help much

Support BοtJun 7, 20161 votes

Trynda used to push lane for stacking passive. Just farm under turret.

venomous frostJun 7, 20161 votes

if they play agressive s you, the wave will push.

If they are melee, just freeze the wave infront of your turret so he cant kill the caster minions and freefarm and turret.

After u get some points in W, trynd or jax cant fight u anymore

lilpokflufJun 7, 20161 votes

Haven't played nasus in a while but max W would stop jax or tryn from all in you since they would have to blow their gap closer to get close.

MLDzXnRRRJun 7, 20161 votes

I hate to play Trynda vs Nasus - you can kill him 1 or 2 times, before 6, but it doesn't matter, because he counters you. Maybe you can kill him when you both are full build and you time your R, but it doesn't matter.

EndlessSorcererJun 7, 20161 votes

I think the match-up just gets worse and worse for Tryndamere as the game progresses; once Nasus has 45% CDR and W maxed, it's pretty much applied to him permanently.

Tryndamere's best hope is probably to purchase Mercurial Scimitar at some point and use that window to fight Nasus or roam where Nasus isn't and push there. Ninja Tabi or Boots of Swiftness are probably the best boots to take against Nasus in that match-up too.

SirsirJun 7, 20161 votes

item 3110 rush, or item 3065 rush. Every time I see a doge rush anything but a defensive item they get crushed.

read a damn bookJun 7, 20161 votes

Run 30% cdr runes that way your first item of 10% cdr puts you at around 25-30% cdr with the bonus cdr mastery. If they ever play aggressive you are still allowed to sit under tower and farm. Against ad i'd get iceborn first and for ap i'd finish parts of spirit visage or boots first for mr then also go iceborn for the sticking potential with stormraiders

Der LindwurmJun 7, 20161 votes

I've found that anyone who can poke you safely but can't easily be taken out by a determined all-in (Nunu, Gnar) are the biggest problem for Nasus compared to aggressive Jaxes, Darii, Trynds etc.

R FLASH XDJun 7, 20161 votes

doggy got poked, doggy is sad item 3070 Nasus

MunchCrunchLunchJun 8, 20161 votes

you don't want to play against jax as nasus because he outscales you unless you have some ridiculous amount of stacks and even then i dont see how can you splitpush against him since thats all nasus can do

tryndamere is a snowball lane. if you get frozen heart and he hasn't killed you yet you probably won lane already.