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How do you mitigate Nasus farm early as a Fiora?

PrinceArchie··1 votes·1,162 views

Aside from ranged counter picks and all, which is definitely not my way of dealing with troubling champs MOSTLY, I'd like to know how do you mitigate a nasus as a solo top laner? Cause im not sure whether I should look for aggression pre-6, which certainly looks like it, or if I should play some russian roulette hoping I kill him in his ultimate. Im honestly lost, I just don't like how difficult it is to read his incoming Q and it's frustrating to be told general things I know already. "Deny him farm".

I wish I could type that in chat in it magically happens, but that doesnt happen and quite frankly a lot of Nasus ignore you and go for the farm anyway. Are there any slight rune pages, early builds or tactics I can try out early as a fiora to put the leash on this bad doggie? Things I already do to avoid redundancy:

-I "W" (Riposte) his Q when I actually notice it. I may be overexaggerating how difficult it is for me to read it, I do successfully parry it quite often, though it tends to go off cooldown before my W anyway from my observation...

  • Switched from Dorans and 1 hp pot to flask and 3 or 4 hp pots, since I fugre I'll be getting free dmg from "W" so why not the extra sustain.

  • Calling for ganks, but you know laners can't depend on their junglers 100% of the time, and quite frankly I wont be nice here cause I can't count on these guys 30% of the time. They love to gank your lane when your ahead for a Ks but never help you get ahead to begin with or catch up. Maybe not "never" but it's just a sad jungling world in solo queue.

Again I'm aware of my "counters" but you can't always ban every counter you have and it's pretty selfish to do so anyway. Also I just want to have a better experience on Fiora, im not interested in climbing Elo in preseason or seeing more wins for winnings sake. I want to become a better Fiora player so Nasus tips please.

9 Comments

Lafouboy4 votes

The fuck is with people thinking that Fiora is countered by Nasus? Fiora hyper counters Nasus.

Here is how you #shREK your opponent in laning phase:

  1. Get your W and max it first; max your Q next, leaving E to be maxed last
  2. Beat him up in the early game by zoning him and only last hitting your minions. Don't go in on him while his cannon minion is up, as its attack can force your W to block it instead of Nasus's Q. You outdamage him by a lot in the early game, you can trade much better than him (especially if you properly use your W). Literally just auto him a few times whenever he comes to Q a minion, you will get a bunch of free damage on him that he can't properly life steal back from his Q.
  3. Get a Doran's Blade to add to your damage. You don't need a flask. You can all in him at lvl 3 and come out favorably even amongst minions (most of the time).
  4. Get an offensive summoner spell so that you can easily kill the Nasus in the early game if he gets down to 1/3 health or so. I am using Smite (rushing Skirmishers for its ridiculous smite benefit), but if you want to be more conventional you can get ignite.

So that is how you kill the Nasus. He will be crying due to the fact he can't touch the creeps without getting beaten up by you. If you do well in the early game, you should get the damage to just start taking him out from full health to none; ignite will help stop his ultimate from giving him a bunch of free health too. Nasus will NEVER (unless you feed him/let him free farm like a retard) be able to trade favorably with you in the early game, so use that to your advantage.

I am a Fiora main; I find Nasus to be one of the easiest matchups for me in lane.

Champion Skin2 votes

That all sounds good Just one correction Ignite does not reduce Nasus ult, Renekton ult or Lulu ult this is because they are not healing but an increase in max and current health

AGarner3 votes

Just always poke at level 1 no matter what you will out trade him (unless he starts E) because his Q damage is only 10 plus about 70-80 depending on his AD so you will out trade him with your double Q or E. make sure every time he tries to last hit a minion you jump on him his lifesteal early is really bad because he doesn't deal damage.

source: use to main Nasus before I got bored of playing farming simulators.

PrinceArchie1 votes

Ah ok, I thought his life steal was more significant early, guess not. Good tip will try.

Leti the Yeti2 votes

as a nasus, i dont think i've ever gotten ganked cuz of how I dont ever push so idk whats with people always telling others to "make nasus farm under turret" and im lyke... da fuq is that suppose to do nasus and turret and his jungler are best fucking friends, you want HIM to push or feeze the lane so he cant flee or turtle to his turret and is gankable

PrinceArchie1 votes

Yea I make sure to not try to push him to his turret cause I assume he'd be able to farm under turret and I also know that his wither will just rekt me if I do get ganked. But yes I will do :)

Juggernaut Jesus1 votes

Go roam.

PrinceArchie1 votes

Yea, though that leaves him to farm for free, push to my turret and ganks may not always be available with my TP up. It's really a debatable issue but I do try and roam.

Leti the Yeti1 votes

if you really cant do anything bout nasus, well theres no point trying to stop him really, go lane with someone else and apply pressure to the rest of the map cuz its like 4 v 5

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