With all these already decent champions getting buffs, can Nasus get some love?

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At least you can try to deny Darius Q heal, you cant really stop Nasus alone once he has 1 item or even earlier anymore. And unlike basically every other bruiser or juggernaut or whatever, he doesnt have to build 1 offensive item to do damage, trinity just makes it 3 times worse. Vayne isnt "meta" or "good" atm either and many people still complain about her getting buffed because she isnt exactly fun to deal with, and Nasus is even less fun with his free life steal at level 1, life steal at level 13, 5 second point and click slow with a higher range than most adcs can auto attack from and his 0 cooldown nuke... impossible to dodge of course.

So let's understand a few things

Let's say you run 12/0/18 on Nasus. His base AD isn't very good, so typically you're at around 70 AD with runes and masteries, giving you 13% LS at level 1. Assuming you're able to freely auto attack minions, you're only getting 9 hp back per auto attack, with his Q having 30 base damage, this increases to around 13. Naturally, this is level 1 and his base AD and Q damage do scale up but long story short, his sustain is average early game. Once he hits 7, it does start noticeably scaling up pretty quickly. But Nasus usually wins/loses his lane well before 7 and if he's forced to try and catch up, his sustain won't matter because he will be zoned pretty hard.

Nasus gets more sustain from and health potions early game than he does his own sustain. And while I don't think it's bad, he doesn't become this "immovable" wall later on and by then he's either won or lost. To argue that his sustain is significant early is foolish, it really isn't and this is also when he's most prone to being zoned off creeps. Now if you want to argue whether this is healthy or not, you've got a good damn case that it's not and I won't dispute that.

This is why I don't want his lane phase super buffed. 175 range simply makes weaving around through minions a bit easier. 10 extra range on wither gives him an actual threat to the backline in teamfights to the point where you have to account for Nasus withering a target. In exchange, I wouldn't actually mind a slight cooldown increase to stop chain withering, which is pretty unhealthy

As it stands, Nasus isnt that good. The things you have to do to make him work require too much effort and time and it's easier to just play Darius or Illaoi. He doesn't feel rewarding anymore, not for the risk of picking him.

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Yeah the only reason i'd say that a buff would make nasus unhealthy is the fact that if they make him strong enough to safely farm or something, he would probably become insane. It already doesn't matter what you do to a nasus in lane, he's eventually going to reach his power spike where he's unbeatable(and yes i mean unbeatable) and there's nothing you can do about except win the game before he gets there and deny him farm so it takes him longer.

Wither btw is a 90% slow, and nasus can chunk pretty much anyone for 1000+ damage Q's and also health off of them, darius has a limit, nasus does not.

Nasus sucks late game, the only thing he can do is farm for 35+ minutes to start two shorting structures. And even then, he still can't push as fast as 5 and if Nasus has done nothing but farm for 35 minutes and you haven't taken advantage of 5v4s in a game where TP flanks suck now, you deserve to lose. It takes a long time for Nasus to get to a point where he's hitting you for 1000 damage after armor mitigation. We are easily talking at least 700 stacks.

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Yeah the only reason i'd say that a buff would make nasus unhealthy is the fact that if they make him strong enough to safely farm or something, he would probably become insane. It already doesn't matter what you do to a nasus in lane, he's eventually going to reach his power spike where he's unbeatable(and yes i mean unbeatable) and there's nothing you can do about except win the game before he gets there and deny him farm so it takes him longer.

Wither btw is a 90% slow, and nasus can chunk pretty much anyone for 1000+ damage Q's and also health off of them, darius has a limit, nasus does not.

unbeatable? if we talk about late game, around 50% of top laners will beat him in a 1v1 scenario

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Yes, that and they don't scale infinitely which is kind of a big deal.

His infinite scaling hardly matters tbh