Why don't people build veigar tankish?

I do. People dont because they are greedy. AP builds with Deathcap snowball way harder with his passive.

Because it doesn't really greatly increase his survivability. Veigar's survivability is increased more with a than with a real tank item due to how squishy he innately is. It's not gonna work. Also his damage per second output is not comparable to Nasus. Veigar has a 0.6 AP ratio on Q, 1 ratio on W and 0.75-1.5 ratio on R.

Effectively R is used only once in teamfights. Q is used every 5 seconds, and W every 8 seconds. Let's ignore cdr cause Nasus as well can build cdr, so the calculation is rescaled to be the same.

Nasus Q is 4 sec CD. He get 3 stacks per creep killed, so basically his scaling per creep is 0.75 damage / second

Veigar's is 0.6/5 + 0.8/8 = 0.22 damage / second + a burst of .75/1.5 on ult

In Veigar's defense, he stacks on more than just creeps and can double stack. But even then. His scaling is much lower ; and Nasus has WAY better defensive statistics than Veigar. With his ult and base stats, it's like he has 2 defensive items more than Veigar, without needing anything.

I have tried it. Before and after rework. Had fun, but it never quite scaled to be impressive, unless I was spectacularly farmed.

Tbh in very late game I tend to build a bit of defense so as to be able to deliver my burst without dying beforehand, but that's it. I'd typically run .

After , , and , I build , , and .

Feels bad man...

Because people are dicks and will flame while feeding the enemy team over your warmongs or something.

veigar is ranged and bursty. unless he faces a heavy engage comp, he can easily afford to build squishy, while nasus has to build to survive through longass fights. nasus simply doesnt have the option of building squishy. if he had, he would.