How dumb would it be to cap Nasus's stacks per minute?

Tentacle Love··2 votes·1,022 views

Like, suppose you wanted to try and convince Nasus to come out of top lane and teamfight at some point.

You could change his stacking mechanic so that he could only gain a certain number of stacks before hitting a temporary ceiling, which slowly grows over time. This would also allow Nasus to catch back up after a nasty start, but it would still hurt.

It would mean that Nasus would hit a power spike, and he would be essentially told that he was at his temporary peak, and that he should (probably) use his power spike in an attempt to take objectives or a few kills to help out teammates.

I'm visualizing like a beam of sunlight shining down on him highlighting him when he hits the temporary cap, something that makes you go "oh yeah, spotlight's on, time to be a badass and lead this band." or something like that.

In theory he'd still be able to stack indefinitely, get to the point where he oneshots baron, elder dragon, and the nexus, of course.

But I get the impression that most players who play nasus only have one thing that they get immediate gratification on, and that's the almighty stacks. Giving Nasus a breather from stacking doesn't just mean that he has a moment to shine, it also means he has a moment to back, confident that he's not missing out on any stacks.

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GhostOfTsushima2 votes

The reason Riots don't bother with him because Nasus can easily be deal in high elo because most player know how to beat him

While in low elo Nasus is unstoppable because people don't know how to play against him.

Friskusis1 votes

Agreed! I played in gold/low plat elo last season and I permabanned Nasus. Every game I had ban. :P Too many times have I heard "wtf damage". Think I'll be sticking to the same strategy this season as well (now it's even worse as I've got silvers involved as well rip).

GoldenMean2 votes

removing a strategic choice from a champ is generally bad design

FACE THE WlND1 votes

So make Nasus easier for noobs, worse for good players.

FurretHasAGlock1 votes

No. Stacks. STACKS. NEED. WANT. STAX. MOOOREEE

Almighty1 votes

First rule of Nasus: NO teamfights untill 1000 stacks.

Almighty.

xBushx1 votes

No just add Auto attacking Enemy champs to add stacks and that makes team fighting Viable...Veigar Approves this msg LMAO

Sasogwa1 votes

Very bad. The only window in this meta in good levels of play where Nasus is strong is if he can stack a lot by midgame. It could work if Nasus was actually a great lategame teamfight asset, but would be a poor way anyway to limit his midgame power. But he isn't.

Lugg1 votes

There shouldn't be a cap, he should just get stacks a little slower. Right now, a good Nasus main has 300 stacks at 15 minutes which is absurd.

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