How to play as Tryndamere vs Nasus

DarkHeadgear·1/16/2017, 1:10:30 AM·1 votes·27,540 views

Every time I play Tryndamere vs Nasus matchup, as tryndamere, I always win the early game. Snowballing if the nasus sucks, denying nasus of his farm if he doesn't suck. I snowball, solo rift herald 80% of the time, and then get 2-3 towers top and sometimes 1 mid.

Then Nasus scales.

He is a nightmare. All-inning him stops working. He gets damage and mobility, able to kite me back and only trade with his Q. Is there a build or playstyle that allows me to beat him?

I tried lane swapping in the match and I just nearly went 1-for-1 with the adc and we both backed off. Our bot at top lane did something similar but no progress was made because i already took 2 towers, they just got farm. Splitting top was interrupted by nasus, splitting bot was interrupted by nasus. Grouping was interrupted by nasus. Nasus ruins everything.

How do I win

11 Comments

StealWolverine1/16/2017, 3:14:22 AM3 votes

Your build is all wrong for dealing with him. item 3033 or item 3036 and item 3153 are basically musts. since you dont really need to push against nasus (thats what he wants you to do) item 3046 > item 3087 if one cleanse is enough to kill him taking item 3139 can be an ok way to deal with constant withering. Honestly though once he has maxed cdr and wither unless you are way ahead you shouldnt really be the one to go after him as tryndamere dosent really have anything to deal with tanks like other melee caries. you can try try to use w to mess up him qing the cannon minions.

killing his tower early generally isnt the way to go. freezing the wave and standing on his side of it and zoning him is your goal. rather than pushing to his tower and wailing on it you are trying to maximize the number of minions his tower takes. when you kill him you can shove to tower and kill minions if there and if not go aggressively ward their jungle to steal camps and even try to kill their jungler.

Tryndamere is strong at taking objectives. push to take baron rift herald and even dragons(harder because of distance. tp helps though if you need to get back to save tower)

the second his tower goes down the time bomb starts he now only has to worry about his minions taking stacks from him and he can push out super slowly and quickly gain stacks. just like tryndamere you cant keep nasus down forever. this is where normally as a top player youd be trying to snowball your other laners and force teamfights you should win because you are ahead by beating up on nasus in his weak early game. The problem is tryndameres teamfighting sucks.

you are also dont need ignite. you can easily smoke him early take tp to make plays/stop nasus split push or exhaust to help out in teamfights.

The other way you can play is a base race. Take tp. Pressure early and destroy top towers until people start rotating and teamfigts start breaking out. at that point you can go bot and try to out shove him. item 3153 item 3074 item 3087 are decent items as you are looking for dueling potential and fast push. you should take 2 people at least to kill you, which would leave your team in a 4v2. takes alot more of your team playing well around what you are doing and taking advantages of mismatches you are creating. since you are letting nasus basically free stack you have a small window before he gets rolling, and in that window you need to probably get an inhib in one of the other 2 lanes or you shot yourself in the foot for no reason.

No great way to handle it.

EndlessSorcerer1/16/2017, 2:15:31 AM2 votes

Build Ninja Tabi.

Nasus can't really afford to purchase penetration items, so his damage falls off rather quickly against opponents with resistances. In addition, his Q is a modified autoattack, so 12% of the bonus damage will be reduced too.

Asayake 5150glow1/16/2017, 1:12:13 AM1 votes

Get lifesteal/tank shred build instead of crit. You should be able to out damage him and sustain up on minions.

TequilaZombie1/16/2017, 2:10:34 AM1 votes

Do you realise that this is EXACTLY what it feels like to play vs a Trynd? I have no idea how to stop it, but if you know how to counter your champ you should know how to counter a Nasus.

PermabannedGaren1/16/2017, 2:13:32 AM1 votes

Tryndamere can not duel Nasus late game. Period.

item 3046 item 3006 item 3031 item 3153 item 3036 item 3139

This is I think probably the best build if you want to maintain dueling pressure on him throughout the game, but there will come a point where you can't. QSS the wither obviously.