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Renekton vs Nasus

WitchQueen Annie·7/3/2017, 9:08:44 AM·3 votes·12,039 views

Okay this is SUPPOSED to be a "stomp" in favour of Renekton (or so I've heard) but its a match up I seem to lose every time I try it in Ranked.

If you aggro him with your Qs, you push the wave in and then he gets a Gank and you die. Its unfair because at ANY POINT if he gets a Gank and if my dash is down, he presses ONE BUTTON (his absolutely broken Wither) and you are slowed for AGES... almost guaranteeing you will be killed by the JG. And once he kills you even once, there is no counterplay against him because he's a walking stats stick and will just Q/E you to death.

Half the time I can't aggro him because it will push and then he'll get a Gank, hit wither, and snowball.

But if you freeze, you don't do enough damage to him as Renekton. You can periodically hit him without pushing, but he has infinite sustain from his Qs and he just gets his health back.

Past 6 I'm supposed to be stronger for a bit but it feels like he can match my damage at that point and his Q/Es chunk. What are you supposed to build against him? Amor first? BC first? MR?

Is it supposed to be a stomp in favour of Renek? Why's it feel so hard?

Any tips?

5 Comments

Sasogwa7/3/2017, 9:43:58 AM2 votes

It's not a stomp. You're supposed to build item 3071 item 3047 to compensate his armor rush, and his E shred. It's not an easy matchup and requires you to exploit everything you can to shut him down. Set him low life, for a dive with your jungler (especially if there's a huge wave coming to his towers, he'll be losing fucktons of gold, exp and stacks this way). Don't hesitate to trade and autoattack him. If he trades back, he's not farming his Q. If you're ahead and the lane is pushing towards you, freeze it and zone him off. E max Nasus is different though. He's kind of lanebully like you but scales worse than Q max Nasus. But he's kinda 'ranged', you should be stronger in melee except if he's fed (don't stay in his E)

Inting Pillow7/3/2017, 10:16:47 AM1 votes

It's a stomp for Renekton. Rushitem 3071 item 3047 to make his armor useless and his damage output fictional, E in, W, Q, E out. If you repeat you out sustain, out harass, and out lane. Prevent his Q stacks by stunning him while he tries to farm, bait his ult out and choose to either chase with your ult or prepare to abuse the cooldown. I've played the matchup from both ways, Renekton always wins this one.

TheDangerousTaco7/3/2017, 10:17:50 AM1 votes

The reason its considered a stomp by many, is because nasus has one of the worst early game of top laners ( only real damage skill is his E, and without Q stacks he has limited ways to trade you. ) And renekton has one of the strongest early games of top laners ( assuming you know how to auto attack cancel, trade, and freeze very well ).

This matchup assumes that If your both great at your champion, renekton wins, but in no way is it a 100% counter all game. If nasus gets ahead in any point, you will always play from behind. ( that's just how nasus works) So as renekton you have to make sure you win. No matter what, be as brutal as you can. If he goes to cs, you cripple him with E+ W+ Auto + Q. Then freeze lane. If you bring tp, rush black cleaver and spam abilities on him, don't let him heal up at all ( be careful of jungle ganks ). If you bring ignite, ward up river and cheese him FB and rush hydra. Your goal is not to directly counter him, but make his life living hell. Either he will call for jungle gank, or farm under towers. Those are the only options you are giving him.

Turn him into the dog he is, and bring a leash for him. Tell him he is trash and to uninstall, and when he gets mad and tries to kill you. Blitz him with full combo and make him recall. You have to play that lane Smart... but very.. very aggressively. Nasus is the king of scaling, no one can outscale him with stacks. But if your not playing a True damage champion, your best bet is to go full ham early game, and tell your jg to help you camp top.

That's just, my advice though