I just played AP Nasus Support in a ranked...

SaltyToplaneGoat··1 votes·6,290 views

... and I feel like there is not even a single atom of honor left in my existence. AP Nasus and Cait against Kog'Maw and Janna. Usually I consider these a strong lane, considering that Janna's shield boost works quite hard with Kog's high attack speed - and even when you land a wither on Kog Janna can disengage.

However, I simply won the lane with my E. Plock. Here goes a thrid of your HP. Plock. here goes another. Plock. I just hit adc and supp at the same time. Oh btw it also reduced your armor by a TON, so cait will just murder you with two basics.

We did win that game. Brutally hard I may add here.

But it didn't feel like a win. It's kinda like winning a war solely by poisioning your foes water and food. Yes you won, but no one will ever find honor and greatness in your deeds. So can we maybe please consider reworking Nasus? Because this is not what this character is supposed to stand for...

6 Comments

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

AP Support Nasus has serious potential. He easily procs spellthief's edge, can harass two targets, withers the ADC into nothing, and has great damage to boot.

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

As long as you are against an mage support it is absurdly broken. Against tanks you might run out of juice before you've poked them down fast enough.

It's not just potential. It's seriously broken with a lack of counterplay. You cannot avoid the E, it procs thunderlords and the armor reduce is absolutely lethal on botlane.

The thing is: his E base and scalings are tuned for toplane, where enemies have more base hp and MR and even get MR-per-level. Bring that to botlane against two squishies who might even not have MR runes (as on bot they might prefer armor), and it's just plain unfair.

And Riot can't even nerf the ability without gutting toplane Nasus.

Incognonymous1 votes

If they hide in the wave you will inevitably push it, take CS from your ADC, and make your spellthief useless. That's just asking for the enemy jungler to set up his tent botlane.

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

Even when you kill a minion with the initial explosion, as long as you hit both of them you still get two spellthief stacks off. If they are not both in the waves, focus the one who's not in.

And yes, you push. But then again the waveclear power of E can be quite strong, meaning you push it so hard you just run the minions into the tower fast enough and the lane resets.

And junglers can be kept at bay with some good warding.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Kog/Janna lanes aren't that good especially early on since neither has much laning pressure.

Though that's the thing with off-meta picks, after all. Can't blame you for that though.

Ravenous Howls1 votes

Why should we rework a champion because someone played him unconventionally one time and won with it? I have a feeling that if you mained support Nasus your win rate would drop quickly. Also, as you said, Nasus's abilities are tuned for top lane and if you effectively nerf that he will be even harder to play then he already is. He currently has a 47% win rate so he's clearly not broken. This is a very silly post.

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