Is picking Nasus = trolling right now?

Juice·Oct 18, 2018·12 votes·7,574 views

What the hell is this champion supposed to do?

He has no early game and NO late game.

I'm sorry, you can have 2500 stacks but what good are they when you can't use them because you get blown up in 3 seconds every teamfight and get CC locked to death?

Out of 137 champions in League of Legends about 2 don't counter Nasus and one of those is Nasus.

Have you tried playing Nasus (a joke) late game against Brand (a real hypercarry)? It's just hilarious.

I remember when Nasus was tank and him eating CC meant something. The only real champion that could kill him was Vayne, or maybe late game Kog Maw...

29 Comments

AlzonOct 18, 20186 votes

Nasus is hella strong, has been for a while. Very easy to win lane after rushing Sheen. Good with Conqueror. Scales harder than a lot of other top laners, and if his team is winning, he becomes a huge ticking time bomb while he free farms. Or he can draw lots of pressure off of his team, because he will win most 1v2s if he has Triforce, t2 boots, half a defensive item, 200 stacks, and ult up.

CaptionbubblyOct 19, 20181 votes

i would say hes okay with conquorer . it makes his early game even more shit then it already is. and 200 stacks isnt going to kill anything. you will literally never be able to 2v1 any champions with 200 stacks ( you probably wont be able to 1v1 anyone either tbh unless its like 10-14 minutes) and 20% cdr or even 30%. The best part for nasus is about 20 minutes with 400 stacks 45% cdr conquorer then you can usuallly 2v1 anything usually even 3v1 if theyre squishies)

MLDzXnRRROct 18, 20185 votes

Nasus was never a good "tank". You have to splitpush, if you get caught, pray that your team can push something else or take baron. As a midgame champ, you have the finish the game on time. I played him 3 times some day ago. One of the games was a troll game (2 adcs , one of them ragequit) and I was stilll not doing that bad. Trinity + BT+boots was one of the games (vs Garen).22 minutes, S- Glacial shroud+Trinity+Stormrazor+Death's dance+Warmogs+Tabis was the last game (vs Urgot ). 34 minutes,S-. I can't see what's the point of Q max. Max E and get a kill lvl 4-5. Then kill them again after 6. Farming stacks is also a waste of time. Sheen proc + like 200 stacks ruins towers. Your job is to push, not to farm.

FioraWillCarryOct 18, 20181 votes

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I can't see what's the point of Q max. Max E and get a kill lvl 4-5. Then kill them again after 6. Farming stacks is also a waste of time. Sheen proc + like 200 stacks ruins towers. Your job is to push, not to farm.

E max uses way too much mana. I used to do it when you could buy 2 Doran Rings and not run out of mana but since D-Ring's nerfs, I could never make it work again. The only way it can is if you're going AP Nasus or some kind of AP hybrid build, in which case it's better to simply pick an AP champion.

Overall, E max Nasus is the poor man's Yorick. Just pick Yorick if you like E max Nasus more. Yorick does EXACTLY what E max Nasus does but much much better.

Personally, I pick Nasus for his insane mid game, not to split. I really don't like Nasus that much as a split pusher. His team fighting power is insane in the mid game.

Moody POct 18, 20181 votes

the better strat is three points E then max Q

BobaFlautistOct 18, 20183 votes

NASUS IS A MIDGAME CHAMPION NASUS IS A MIDGAME CHAMPION NASUS IS_ A_ MIDGAME CHAMPION NASUS IS A MIDGAME CHAMPION NASUS IS A MIDGAME CHAMPION

He hasn't been lategame powerhouse for a very long time, his job is to stalemate lanes against bullies, stack up, and auto-win duels/draw pressure from about level 6 to level 11ish.

He's not supposed to have a super powerful early game, so that early game champions have a window of opportunity against him, and he's not supposed to carry once everyone has 3 items, but in between the two he's almost unstoppable.

PhearBunnyOct 18, 20182 votes

Nasus will still crap on pretty much every melee oriented team, that doesn't have a Vayne or a Kaisa.

SS1986Oct 18, 20182 votes

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Nasus will still crap on pretty much every melee oriented team, that doesn't have a Vayne or a Kaisa.

A wild master yi appeared !!!!

Shrek LuigiOct 18, 20182 votes

he's actually quite good, provided you don't blindpick him and, subsequently, get counterpicked. not only is nasus a risky pick against kiters, but there is a pretty big catalogue of melees who can toe the line against him too, on top of having really restrictive teamfight capabilities.

that being said, most tanks or toplane melees who powerspike later on in the game have a lot of trouble cutting through his sustain. he's also really flexible in terms of build options and can easily farm under turret so it's not often that youll arrive into midgame from a disadvantaged position.

he's a melee AD, though, so it obviously requires discretion & an understanding of when not to pick him.

Sir PrepuziusOct 18, 20182 votes

how did you build your nasus?

Clockwork MouseOct 18, 20182 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Prepuzius,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Em5w3ez6,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2018-10-18T13:40:47.789+0000)

how did you build your nasus?

item 3117 item 3153 item 3147 item 3814 item 3142 item 3022 can it be any better then this?

Velzard of KozOct 18, 20182 votes

Ain't no stack running away when you have pike, sword, dagger, saber and hammer to kill it with.

Clockwork MouseOct 18, 20183 votes

+6 every time

Underscore4Oct 19, 20181 votes

checked his match history, the game he lost right before posting this he had dorans shield, kindlegem, chainvest, giants belt, iceborn, ninja tabi at 22m when the game ended.

Clockwork MouseOct 18, 20182 votes

Just build him AP and play him for wave control. His E can catch a wide area. In team fights just put that shit down and you are helping a lot. hit a whole team, reduce their armor for your ADs

Nasus = item 3027 item 3116 item 3151 item 3285 item 3020 item 3089

ThıghConnoısseurOct 18, 20182 votes

Just play yorick

Noor SakataOct 18, 20182 votes

He isn't that bad , honestly he is a monster in late game , his problem is his early

CaptionbubblyOct 19, 20182 votes

I have been thinking about this for a while and yes it is. Im a nasus main (not a very good one mid you) but ive noticed that nasus is too weak early game and if theres ANY game where nasus would 100% stomp..just bring yi; better early game, better mid game, and better late game. If Yi is banned just go olaf, better early game, better mid game, and better late game. (which is funny because i remember having 600 stacks at 28 minutes only for the conquorer olaf that rushed full lifesteal to literally eat my booty even though i "kited" basiclaly half his ult by running) should also be noted that i won the early game also (with alot of ganks and freezing the wave) just for him to kill me later (with 400 stacks at 20) through my steraks and thornmail. Same thing would happen with yi.

Also the early game is too bullshit at this point. You have to start e in literally EVERY matchup just to try and get some farm when u get to lane or else half your health or MORE is going to be gone for one minion (which is funny because they still out damage you while tanking 4-6 minions ) And then theres the problem that you cant actually 1v1 any other juggernaut until about 13-20 minutes (with conquorer) unless its a garen and then u can 1v1 him around a bit after first back or u cant 1v1 him at all if youre the villain (because a rank 1 ult should ALWAYS do 1200-1350 true damage just because you got a kill)(also usually all jugggernauts eventually outscale you around 30-40 minutes unless youve been split pushing the entire time but at that point that game shoudlve already been over)

Whats even more bullshit though is getting tower dove by the kled level 2 because he has ignite and your under 100% (around 75% is enough for him to towerdive you ) and living with literally 7 health because u flashed away and he cant chase you without scaaaaaaaarl

whats sad is even if your literally 3 feet away from your tower the rammus will zoom in level 3 and literally just cc you to death only for the garen to silence you right after so you have 0 time to flash while you take 1000000000 damage (whats worse is bringing ghost although i basiclaly always do)

although all that said nasus isnt really that bad im just a bad playing him and even then I go on winstreaks of over 75% in 40 games but then right after i get tilted from 1 game for about 4 days and proceed to go on a lose streak of 0-35% for 30 games . Also if you get one gank your probably set for a early sheen to literally just dominate the game after that point, and if you dont get a gank and do survive with nasus, around level 11 you basically outscale literally everyone (except darius you have to kill him level 10 so he doesnt rape you with his level 11 ult) also you can beat every late game champ (except olaf and yi and irelia ) at around right after first sheen if you brought conquorer. (its good to let them poke you with their gapcloser before going in and ghosting and usually people dont really know so they push the wave to your tower thinking they can still dominate you)(literally every riven, but if she doesnt early game your probably going to get raped because riven is broken)

One last thing is that if you do get fed and your team does good also you can basically just 5v1 (which everytime that has happened ive literally either gotten a solo triple or a solo quadra tbh)

So not weak. people just cant play him properly . Also theres a way to win literally every matchup (except like the buffed darius one i wouldnt know though because after they buffed him ive literally been permabanning him) The thing is though you can win every matchup but most times one person on your team is going to HARD feed and regardless of how many resistances youll have youre going to get one shot. (Looking at you voidstaff(40% magic pen), executioners calling (literal aids) and the new infinity edge (why would you make it do true damage and not compensate nasus with a buff to his ult health?)

Honeslty I hope they buff nasus' ult again, the other ult buff was actual cancer to the game and all he really needed was more resistances and more health. (750 health wont matter when the darius hits you with 1600 truedamage) Instead of making him spam his q (which if he got on them he wouldnt have needed tbh) you shoudlve just given him a olaf and yi ult and nerfed it by 80% so he isnt kited into oblivion)

that being said nerf yi. for the love of god nerf yi. (although if you do want to kill yi just go up to him and make him ult then ghost and pop ult(take that ult speed rune) and just run away for about 8 seconds then go in and wither him cuz your ult lasts almost double of his.)(but cowsep has shown how cancer he is tbh) Fuck nasus play yi.(just dont try to 5v1)

I HOPE THEY LOWER THE DAMAGE AND NERF IGNITE . I DONT WANT TO BE TRIPLE IGNITED LATE GAME AND LOSE HALF MY HEALTH (what is it now 1650 true damage?(does it do 550? or 500?)

TehNACHOOct 18, 20181 votes

You could get on with the Mid Game E Nasus, saving Q max for low pressure lanes.

SõnaOct 18, 20181 votes

That's why it's time to leave this game to avoid further heartbroken, I picked Sona and being called feeder/trolls sarcastically/salts.

Hexs FortuneOct 18, 20181 votes

Nasus isn't living up to his fantasy of being a late game god. He doesn't have the raw durability for it. Once late game hits everyone has their penetrations and shred through his ultimate like butter.

Pika FoxOct 18, 20181 votes

Nasus has good early game, great mid game, god awful late game. His early game is generally spent stacking over doing much else, so its difficult to use his early game. Mid game when he gets an item and some CDR he is a monster. Late game he is delegated to splitpush only because he gets rekt in teamfights.

l MrD lOct 18, 20181 votes

tanks are so irrelevant ... conqueror was a huge mistake imo .. i get it meant divers/bruisers stand a chance vs tanks now but now tanks are weak ... the true damage should work like grasp tbh... but the ad buff part should stay .......

I know tanks like darius and urgot are good but they just have a lot of damage too and they build righteous glory or deadmans to make them umkitable ...

Sion is also good but the amount of health he gets just counters the true damage

honestly i know a lot of people will disagree but i find the tank meta the most balanced - makes the game focus on a strategic point rather than just kill things which people prefer .... but im fed up of getting bursted and having 20 mins games

KVbqbFsC8eOct 18, 20181 votes

Nasus was never a tank that was great at soaking CC, no idea where you're getting that from. You aren't supposed to be teamfighting with him.

BugsLivesMattersOct 19, 20181 votes

Apparently taking Nasus into the jungle with this build is really good: item 1416 item 3078 item 3124 item 3748 item 3053 item 3117

But yeah, I used to main him. Stopped playing him because he gets kited to oblivion. But whenever I do take him into a match, I make it my objective to obliterate towers and shove lanes. Spending all game stacking is an absolute waste of time.

NemeBroOct 19, 20181 votes

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Have you tried playing Nasus (a joke) late game against Brand (a real hypercarry)?

Brand isn't a hypercarry. He falls off as a support and is merely okay as a mid laner.

Supports with high utility and high-impact ultimates like Taric or Sona are the best late game supports. Among mid laners, someone like Vladimir or Cassipiea are strong late game mages.

Sir PrepuziusOct 19, 20181 votes