Riot, stop giving to Nasus even more free stats.

YumaS2Astral·7/11/2018, 1:26:57 PM·1 votes·772 views

**PS: **I know that Nasus' buffs have been reverted. I am just making this thread to remind Riot of how giving him even more free stats will not solve his problem.

Nothing of this has ever been enough to make him more than a niche pick. The problem is that Nasus still has problems late game with teamfighting and multiple people going at him, because if he can't Q someone, he is just a mediocre meatwall with mediocre CC (his W is really powerful and toxic, but only in a 1x1 situation, for teamfighting you would rather have a stun or displacement).

Ever since patch 4.1, where it was Nasus' last nerf, Nasus has only been receiving buffs, with the majority of them giving him more free stats and making him even more of a stat check than he used to be in the past. And even then, he is still a niche pick at best, in most situations. For most of the time after this patch, he didn't had an overall winrate higher than 50%.

Riot keeps buffing Nasus at what he is already good at, but they do nothing to help with his problems. I understand that champions are supposed to have strengths and weakness, but there is a point that no matter how much you buff a champion's strength, they will still have a glaring weakness that impedes them from consistently winning games and/or doing their job well. If you keep buffing their strengths, it will just lead the champion to be overbearing to play against when they are in a favorable situation. Imagine for example, if Riot buffed Vayne's late game, which is already her strongest point. It would still not change the fact that she doesn't have the base stats to survive the early game and most games don't reach late game to begin with.

And that is what happening with Nasus currently. You tried the hardest possible to keep Nasus in check during the early game? Sucks for you, he just finished a defensive item and now he auto-wins against you despite you being technically ahead, just because he presses R and now auto wins fights with the many free stats he gains. At this point, your only hope is to pray that the game goes long enough to the point that your team is capable of surviving enough time to shred him.

Those buffs only serve to make Nasus even more of a time bomb and even more frustrating to play against. I think it is time to tone down Nasus in a 1x1 situation, and give him some strength in his teamfighting potential. (for example, I would remove the reduced cooldown on his Q during the ultimate, that is just bullshit). Make him less frustrating to play against, and allow Nasus to actually fullfill his intended fantasy as a late game god (which he doesn't currently, because despite having infinite scaling, he doesn't have the tools to make use of this infinite scaling late game). I unfortunately don't have any ideas of how to do that.

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