The Nasus buffs actually feel pretty good

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Yeah, he's part of a new skin line coming to the PBE.

Here's his splash. He shares it with Hecarim.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A8j-IvZ-TdA/WAkoZCv05iI/AAAAAAAA_Rw/jGt8k_da5P8_J5ZgS8qaphLgAasqGxjQQCLcB/s1600/Nasus_Splash_10.jpg

that's fucking dope

explains his buffs tho :p

I would if the other team has no cc but slows XD. and not a lot of those. Also if all their cc is knockups, merc treads are worthless.

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i would never switch out merc treads on nasus

Mercs rarely make much of a difference. Your priority on Nasus should be to flank/clean up and zone control anyway. Not to mention the ability to outplay slillshots.

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You're only NOW building Ohmwrecker?

I was building that crap for like 7 months until they randomly nerfed it, and triforce got changed so I could run 15% CDR level 1 still.

I was building IBG before the proc damage got nerfed, with CDR boots and SV because CDR boots only cost 800 gold earlier this season + the reduced Flash cooldown. Then they nerfed it and changed Trinity and I started building it and capping CDR pretty quickly and I realized ohmwrecker gives you an hP + armor + CDR route but the only downside is kindlegem CDR doesn't stack so you need to finish either SV or OW before.

But I'm especially attracted to it now because all my items save for maw give HP so the ability to stack more HP on Nasus with his resists from ult really ramps up his tankiness nicely.

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i'm trying to get a feel for nasus myself, can you tell me what your rune pages are? most of mine have i think 10-15% CDR on them, but i feel really, REALLY squishy early game

Sure

I am not a fan of heavy CDR rune pages, I prefer a mixture of scaling + Flat runes to help me both with early game and mid game spikes. But there's nothing wrong with the CDR pages, I just prefer a beefier setup because I like to skirmish a lot on Nasus.

My standard rune page in most match ups is as follows:

Flat AD damage reds - makes last hitting quite a bit easier Scaling HP yellows Flat armor quints Scaling MR blues (they break even with flat MR around level 6-7 and with your passive + corruption potion, you can survive most lanes)

In lanes where I know I'm going to be under tower all game, I actually run lifesteal quints because in all probability, armor quints won't help much if I'm constantly pushed in. So the additional lifesteal is a nice boost.

Some people go balls out and run CDR quints but again, this doesn't fit my playstyle so I don't do it. Flirt around with things and see what you enjoy the most because runes are really going to depend on how you like to play.

For masteries I run 12/0/18 and pick up Grasp. I don't take stormraiders on him because it's win-more. If I'm in a position to do 30% of someone's max HP, chances they're dead no matter what. I can't stress this enough, nasus's problem isn't sticking to a target, it's getting there in the first place. And StormRaiders doesn't help you with that - unless you're a fucking man and go 1000 AP Nasus.

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i'm trying to get a feel for nasus myself, can you tell me what your rune pages are? most of mine have i think 10-15% CDR on them, but i feel really, REALLY squishy early game

I run a mix of scaling health yellows and flat armor yellows, (or flat ap resist yellows) and either 2 armor quints or 2 mr quints. Depending on the match-up. I still get up to 10% starting CDR among the blues and the one quint.

I looked at your rune page and you probably shouldn't have the lifesteal quints in if you feel squishy. I think carnarius has 3 lifesteal quints in his pages, but I believe he runs armor reds.

Your "nasus ad page" is pretty similar to what I have. The rune pages I think are personal preference for a Nasus main. If you think you can dodge and sustain the lifesteal is good, but if you are concerned of an early death run a full tank page. I run 4 attack speed reds because there were some instances where I would have to farm under tower at level 1 or 2 because I will get zoned so hard.

I think the flat CDR early is better than the scaling CDR because the first 10 minutes is when you get the most time to farm.

You should go to naopgg and look up some of the nasus mains page and see what they run.

Quazadilic http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Quazadilic is probably the best Nasus main on the N/A who plays ranked regularly with him. Carnarius is probably the best in the world with the champion.

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What keystone though? Ive seem stormraiders be super effective.

Grasp

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I did feel that, but the problem was a fed Cait, and the other game a fed Ezreal. I was also fed af with a typical tank Nasus ( , stormraider's, 45% cdr), but they had so much ridiculous amounts of damage they could nearly 1v1 me. And yay those million traps CCing me for ages, activating nearly instantly. balanced.

AP's actually yeah are manageable but AD carries have way too much damage even against 400+ armor, it's stupid.

You need way more HP in your build than that

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qss-useless nasus w e-does like nothing without rylais the offensive stats were there so you didn't have to build any damage on nasus- no he's just a tank without that power spike as a threat. that threat was a boost in ad, lifesteal essentially, pushing power. now that fighter feel for nasus is completely gone and it will all just come down to brass $ accumulated for nasus to be buff enough to fight. basically, this nerf took out the fun part of dueling. like revert it, this whole change besides the range. your point would still be solid, but my point has validity.

You never realistically got to use that damage in any meaningful way. If you were in the middle of a team, which is what you'd need to ramp up your AD, you'd be beating on the front line at best. Good job, you're hitting the enemy tank for 300 damage every 2 seconds. In that scenario, you're going to be out tanked with no true defensive steorid.

The bonus ad he received only mattered in fringe cases and his e shredding 40 flat armor is actually a big deal. You delete squishies with E/Q.

It has made his teamfight significantly better and I promise you his winrate will jump at least 2-3% when patch data comes out.