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A Viable Nerf to One of the Best Late Top Laners

Luke Vepoh·7/1/2015, 1:53:56 AM·2 votes·1,246 views

Well, We all love how Nasus can scale infinitely into the late game, except the other team. I am not saying we nerf his Q or his Passive because that would completely demolish the point of Nasus , but what I am saying is we do some work on his W (wither). A 1000 stack Nasus should have reward for farming up to the late game but there is nothing more annoying than the ADC having to pay for top lanes ability to zone Nasus . Which actually isn't the easiest to do. For example Nasus 's stats right now on his wither is 47 / 59 / 71 / 83 / 95% which I do not mind seeing much of a difference maybe 30 / 45 / 60 / 70 / 85% that way it does not change the slow potential too much but the thing that annoys ADC's trying to kite this 1 or 2 q Nasus is his ability to drop that slow and drop an extra attack speed debuff which is 23.5 / 29.5 / 35.5 / 41.5 / 47.5% which actually is really game changing, and if you add a item 3110 on that which adds even more of attack speed debuff steroids which is just a bit over powered with very little counter play other than a quick silver sash. Riot should either severely nerf the attack speed debuff or remove it completely. If you think about it even exhaust a summoner compared to an ability cant attack speed steroid that much. I was just thinking nerf the stats to around 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% that way with the item 3110 which every Nasus player builds will still be balanced. To put this in perspective Nasus max wither has an 11 second cool down and it stays on for 5 seconds so your wither goes on cool down for about 6 seconds, and that is without any cool down reduction. All Nasus players also get 40% cool down reduction .

TL;DR Nerf Atack speed debuff on Nasus and lower Max Movespeed debuff a bit. Or increase the cooldown.

44 Comments

darkdill7/1/2015, 2:24:20 AM5 votes

QSS destroys Nasus' Wither. If you're being focused by his Wither, use it to purge the effect and kill him before he can use it again. Or wait until after he's used it sub-optimally (i.e. on one of your teammates) to attack him.

Alternatively, your Support could take Mikael's Crucible and purge Wither off you.

ofart7/1/2015, 2:25:09 AM5 votes

I hate Nasus but I think he'd see competitive play if he was actually OP.

HateDaddy7/1/2015, 3:58:29 AM4 votes

I feel like you spent more time selecting the Nasus icons than you could've by just typing Nasus lol

Mikaels + QSS shits on Nasus' already underwhelming teamfight as it is. Then there's ADC's like Twitch, Kog (with W active), Cait and Trist who completely outrange his wither. And then carries like Corki, Ez and Graves have abilities they spam as well, which yes their DPS is still reduced but by in large, they're a mixture of casters + carries anyway. You want to nerf a champion with an already weak teamfight and the nerf you're focusing on is what ruins it even further, which does nothing but encourages him to to split push even more, which is a lame tactic I admit (as a Nasus main). But it's all he can do well at this point.

If you want a change to wither, I'd suggest a change that would prevent him from chain withering with 40% CDR but also give him more range on it in return, something like his old original casting range of 700, up from 600. But as it stands, this is the last thing you should focus on when considering a nerf to Nasus. You have to also consider Riot is buffing the shit out of everything top lane EXCEPT him, so his match-ups are about to get even more difficult.

Only Play Darius7/1/2015, 5:43:51 AM2 votes

Nope. He is actually a terrible top laner because he has no impact on the other lanes. Mid and/or bot feed hard? GG Nasus gets camped and can't stack anymore (happens all the time)

BeatzBoyFTW7/1/2015, 5:01:53 PM1 votes

Somewhere, the Hand of Noxus is requesting his brother to give him the facepalm.