When is Nasus getting a Gameplay Update?

v good pupper·Apr 19, 2016·3 votes·433 views

Nasus is an incredibly uninteractive champion in the early game who scales into a monster thanks to his kit that is loaded with free stats and invisible power. Nasus's lane consists of being pushed to his turret and last hitting; using his lifesteal to get through lane and his Whither to disengage trades.

He gains free lifesteal, damage on hit, armor shred, health, and AD from his kit. As well, he has a single target movespeed and attack speed slow that ramps up over its duration. That's a ton of stats, and the only ones with indicators are his lifesteal, damage on hit as a buff, and his health gain. There's little clarity on how Nasus is gaining all of his power, leaving opponents wondering how he did so much damage.

Nasus is the perfect candidate for a gameplay update.

2 Comments

VeraskaApr 19, 20164 votes

Of all the fighters I think nasus is in a pretty good spot, his gameplay is unique and you play the game differently because nasus is in it (which is a good thing, every match should feel different) and his late game power isn't an auto win as he's still kiteable

Also I don't like how you use the term "free power" like all of his stat boosts are tied to mana costs and cooldowns, they don't have unlimited uptime, nasus doesn't get just 400 damage on hit for ranking up Q, it's one hit, with a mana cost, same with the armor shred on spirit fire and the health boost on his ultimate, stat boosts on actives are not free power.

Free power is closer to something like, darius' bonus armor pen on his E or zeds passive increased AD on his W, a stat that's just tact onto the kit to make it function with the rest of the game with no decisions or gameplay behind it

Ravenous HowlsApr 19, 20162 votes

Your conclusion on the matter is a woefully inaccurate and premature of any objective or supported facts. Free stats?! Invisible power?! His stacks on Siphoning Strike are clearly visible when you click on his icon letting you know exactly how many stacks he has. Life steal is not visible on any other champ nor is every champions abilities or passive in this game clearly advertised for damage, duration or otherwise. Also if you took away his life steal how exactly do you think he would ever get through the laning phase? What is you solution? Would you give Spirit Fire a huge damage boost to compensate? Make Wither far less mana to cast and more spamable so he could actually have a chance of fighting without dying to 90% of every champion who has a better early game than him? He needs wither to engage and disengage. How is this different than any other champion with CC? So by default any champion who can disengage with a CC ability should be nerfed right? His Armor shred only works if you are foolish enough to fight him within the spirit fire zone. His Ultimate gives him Health and bonus AD but he has no hard engage and you can kite him to death unless you again are really foolish and decide to 1v1 him in melee range. This whole post is an ignorant bias without a single credible argument as to why a rework is needed or much less warranted.