Can you actually do something about Nasus W? This is really getting pathetic.

After3perma··5 votes·1,728 views

In my opinion it is the most broken ability in the game. It slows targets that increases over the duration and reduces attack speed, and the cooldown of this ability, you might aswell not bother mentioning it. The cooldown for this ability is ridiculous.

A rank 5 W with 45% CDR has a 1.05 second cooldown even though it says 6.05 seconds on the tooltip, because this fucking ability cooldown starts as soon as you press W, not when the actual fucking ability finishes and this ability lasts for 5 seconds. If that is not bad enough, it is also a point and click. It actually is pathetic that such an ability even exists in this game.

There isn't even any legit counterplay to Nasus Wither. You cleanse a 45% CDR Nasus W, he uses it again. Then you use QSS, then he uses it again. And then your support uses Mikaels, and he uses it again. Like tell me what the fuck are you supposed to do if you play any immobile champion. You get slowed which increases over the duration so you can't run away, and your attack speed is also lowered so you can't fight back. He can nullify ADCs for 5 seconds, and with a 45% CDR Nasus W, he can Wither your entire team, then repeat over and over again. So many times I have lost 1v1 fights where I almost killed him, but he uses Wither twice in the span of the fight and turns it around all because I can no longer auto attack properly.

You might think that you can kite Nasus but you are wrong because stuff like Phase Rush, Iceborn, Righteous Glory and Approach Velocity are all stuff that gives him extra movement speed/slowing targets.

If you think mana is an issue, then think again. Because he can build items like Iceborn, Trinity, Frozen Heart, Righteous Glory and Q mana cost is 20 mana every rank and W mana cost is 80 at all ranks, he won't be running out of mana any time soon. The only chance you have is by some miracle from God that all his mana is gone, so you at least have a chance to do anything.

But who knows, because Riot's lovely balance team will probably buff Nasus again sometime in the future because that's all they have been giving this champion since V5.16 patch. The last time the balance team touched Wither was in patch V4.1.

8 Comments

Quiet Dude3 votes

When facing Nasus and he withers me, I eat an orange and it's k.

SithesisLord1 votes

And then you remember he can probably Wither you 2, maybe 3 more times before your oranges are back up.

Shuriman Curator2 votes

You should recheck your last chogath match to see where you went wrong because to me it looks like you got your ass handed to you.

he was double your gold, almost 3x cs and multiple completed items over you, and you didn't even finish item 3800, then come here and complain about his W?

After3perma1 votes

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You should recheck your last chogath match to see where you went wrong because to me it looks like you got your ass handed to you.

he was double your gold, almost 3x cs and multiple completed items over you, and you didn't even finish item 3800, then come here and complain about his W?

I went AFK because our mid went AFK after inting level 1. I was sat in base, flaming at the Yi and Xerath and finally this account got permabanned.

So yeah thats why he had double gold, triple cs and completed items.

Madsin252 votes

Funny how the "most broken ability in the game" can get nullified with a single rune.

I run circles around nasus the entire game.

Colton1472 votes

When Nasus's W wears off. https://imgur.com/ha0jVo6

But it's back up. https://imgur.com/tAounL2

(Click on image for GIF)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRhKGfjV7jg

Onandaga2 votes

You absolutely can counter wither. With legend tenacity, unflinching, and merc treds together in a build Wither's duration can be cut down to a mere couple of seconds. Alternatively you can use Phase Rush or Qss.

Tahminatrix 1 votes

Yea they really need to rework nasus because his W is literally all he has going for him, he needs alot of power taken out of that and put into his tankiness or something. (maybe a W passive with a similar but weaker active)

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