NERF! Nasus NOW!

midprewithbaron··17 votes·4,647 views

The fact that a Nasus jungle can get 800 stacks by 20 minutes is genuinely ridiculous. Fair enough he can get poked out of lane, but that is the premise of playing Nasus and all Nasus mains know this. All Nasus mains have always had this thought process. Early game: Try to last hit as best as possible and gathering stacks. Wait for level 6 and depending on the matchup looking for an all in at level 6. Mid game: Split push and Q minions as often as possible. Late game: With a lot of stacks gathered because of 40 minutes of stacking he can start having a lot of game prevalence and start team fighting and focusing the right people. Now all a Nasus has to do. Go jungle get 48 stacks from first clear and start ganking with your insane early game stacks. Then keep clearing and have 500-800 stacks by 20 minutes. Which is what Nasus would normally have by 40-50 minutes. After Riot buffing and nerfing champs for over a decade now, it is truly a mystery how riot thought this buff was a good idea or needed at all.

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Baron Barian7 votes

800 stacks by 20, huh? I've done the math, which involved assuming Nasus has a fully leveled Q right away, infinite mana, and is always killing a minion every 4 seconds from the very start of the game without any form of break, dying, fighting back, or even recall, and that is the only possible way to reach that goal.

You exaggerate beyond all reality.

midprewithbaron3 votes

25* minutes, and is that exaggeration beyond all reality? If 5 minutes of exaggeration, is beyond all reality you are a true Drama queen beyong all reality.

midprewithbaron2 votes

I can link you my friends game, its true.

Baron Barian4 votes

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25* minutes, and is that exaggeration beyond all reality? If 5 minutes of exaggeration, is beyond all reality you are a true Drama queen beyong all reality.

Yes. That exaggeration is beyond all reality. Notice the upvotes I got compared to all of your downvotes. This isn't a "everyone is wrong but me" scenario.

Critmaster Garen4 votes

the fact that you let jungle nasus even get a single stack is hilarious.

invade him. kill him. its that easy. nasus early is trash and he cant 1v1 any of the meta junglers. all your jungler has to do is invade and counterjungle.

its easier to shut down jungle nasus, than lane nasus. jungle nasus doesnt have the protection of a turret.

Fire Blaustoise2 votes

Just invade, isnt a good advice. You can't always invade (depending on your lanes). The best way to counter Nasus is to... play like a normal jungle : pressures, ganks, controle...

In the end the pick is trash in decent elo. I advice you to dodge if you are paired with one. As jungler or laners having a Nasus is all but a bless.

FioraWillCarry3 votes

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invade him. kill him. its that easy. nasus early is trash and he cant 1v1 any of the meta junglers. all your jungler has to do is invade and counterjungle.

I don't think you realize that in any elo not named Diamond, you will see shit like Brand or Teemo jungle. No one in Silver would think to lock in a Xin or something. I don't know how a Sona can counter jungle a Nasus.

Critmaster Garen4 votes

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I don't think you realize that in any elo not named Diamond, you will see shit like Brand or Teemo jungle. No one in Silver would think to lock in a Xin or something. I don't know how a Sona can counter jungle a Nasus.

i do realitze. i just dont care.

its a low elo problem. if a low elo player wants to win against jungle nasus, then they got to learn to make better picks. every player has to improve for himself, and learning not to pick shit is part of the process.

and its not like you cant counter him from other positions.

a 1000 stack nasus still gets shut down by Anivia or Lulu or Alistar or a number of other champions. so the responsibility doesnt just fall onto the jungler not to pick shit.

who cares how many stacks nasus has, when he cant use them? thats why this buff did nothing for him.

and thats also why the nasus buff is useless and the Vayne buff is broken. if a vayne player knows how to abuse his ulted q it becomes impossible to lock him down and kill him, and youre nothing more than target practise for him. for Nasus on the other hand, his own strength is more in the hands of his opponent than himself.

Aurastorm984 votes

Nasus having so many stacks in a short amount of time is a problem. However, my biggest concern is his W. I dont really care about the movement speed reduction, but my problem is that it reduces your attack speed as well. Once he uses that, and procs his Ult, which is the only thing he needs to press to win. That's it. You might as well just leave your computer. Nasus' W is very frustrating to deal with when you're trying to make a critical move to actually beat him. Granted, trying to prevent him from stacking is as easy said than done, but there will be those players that will just sit at turret all day to get those stacks until you foolishly try to dive him, since his passive is a set amount of life steal already. So yeah, getting rid of his reducing attack speed effect is great or at the very least, weaken the effect so it doesnt last 5 long seconds. Seriously, why make it last that long. Most slowing effects dont even last that much.

Talon Gerrard2 votes

Here's your problem. You keep letting the game get up to 30 minutes or you're not using your early game advantage against Nasus to keep him down and then continue to keep him down after he falls behind.

Fire Blaustoise3 votes

Its not even an issue... Nasus isnt good during late.

Talon Gerrard7 votes

You realize you said one of the most broken late game champ's late game isn't good right? Nasus is the living embodiment of late game.

Pandemic Punch2 votes

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Its not even an issue... Nasus isnt good during late.

This is actually true. Too many people overrate him at the point of the game where everyone has 6 items. He is mostly a mid game champion. Late game, there just isnt much he can do on his own.

midprewithbaron2 votes

500 stacks at 20 minutes. His ultimate gives him armor and magic resist. So you are saying that our whole team should use our early game advantage to 1v5 him? Well, I tried this. 25 minutes into the game the enemy nasus had 650 stacks. He then pops ultimate. And proceeds to 1v5 our whole team. With no assists. prior to this 1v5, he was 3/2/1. In what world is this fair. With no mechanical outplay, or any display of skill. All this nasus did was just Press R + continuously Q and AA.

manolis2012 votes

Buff nasus to 18 stacks its the way to go. xD

FioraWillCarry1 votes

I just discovered that buffed Nasus is a hard counter to Fiora. Don't get me wrong, he was always her counter but not a hard counter. You could still win with proper wave management and hyper agressive play. Since his buff, that shit doesn't work anymore. He will just outscale you before lane phase is done no matter how many times you kill him.

TheBrothersGrymm1 votes

i played vs one and he had 300 stacks at 15, 900 at 30mins, he went iceborn and full tank, he couldnt die, its a complete joke

ReDopShadow1 votes

Can we just have a round of applause to riot games for making a stupid decision and buffing nasus fucking nasus u cant beat him how to beat him? banned him but no theres more champions that can fuck u up

l1l Deo l1l1 votes

Riot You Did A Crazy Mistake When U MAKE NASUS GET 12 STACKS FROM JG AND MINIONS! its crazy tank and crazy slow and crazy damge now! no one can win the late when u see him in the enemy team .. its not fair for the champions! u maybe can say its the top strong champion ever! ITS LIKE HACKED CHAMPION! PLEASE RIOT DO A GOOD SOMETHING TO THE WORLD AND NERF NASUS OR IF U CANT JUST DELEAT IT! BEACUSE NO CHAMPION AND NOTHING CAN DO SOMETHING AND KILL THIS CHAMPION IN THE LATE .. ITS LOSE 100% .. Please RIOT THINK ABOUT THIS AND NERF NASUS! THANKS RIOT!

GrimReaper0061 votes

yes I play vs noob nasus his name is XanzXD he dont fight only stuck hes ability and in lade game win

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