What laners straight up beat nasus
From watching gameplay Playing him And playing against him His kit is a little overloaded for a late game champ.
Passive lifesteal at level 1 Stacking q Arguably the best dueling skill in the game with w. Can't kite him and you can't fight him. Massive AOE armor reduction on his spirit fire that hard shoves the lane. Ult that gives health, armor, magic resist, and aura that deals max health damage over time plus increasing his armor and mr over time.
This is such a generic kit and the only thing it's missing is a gap close. Some people are probably going to point out that he is low mobility and that's his weakness. I don't think that makes sense because it doesn't matter if he can't hit you if he never dies. And because he's building full tank combined with the lifesteal that he gets from his passive then there aren't a whole lot of champions that can kill him post level 3. And if you don't kill him before first back then he gets the first part of an item to optimize against your damage and then you're never going to kill him. And when late game rears its ugly head, depending on the Nasus build it is impossible to duel him. The movement speed from Phage, Ghost, Stormraiders, and the slow from wither you can't touch him as melee. And if you picked ranged to poke him out early then he doesn't
There are a few exceptions to this.
- Champions that can bully anyone off of the wave can do well vs him early but those are few and far between. Teemo, kled, darius, pantheon, gnar, and mordekaiser, etc. But with the exception of champions like darius who do well at all stages of the game, killing nasus barely delays his power spikes and they still lose to him late game.
- Early ganks set him back by a lot. This is the only sure fire way of making nasus useless until 30 minutes. Constant jungle pressure and taking down turret early makes the game a 4v5. But in a solo queue environment where you don't get ganks unless you're duo'd with the jungler that will never reliably happen.
I'm not saying to nerf nasus. He has a pretty cool champion concept that I think makes league of legends a better game. But his kit just does to much too easily and I think he should have a mini update to make him less viable early game.
If anyone has advice vs nasus and what champions they've seen him do well against him that'd be really helpful too.
Edit: REally appreciate all the help. Thx :D I still think his kit is a little binary though. I like the idea behind the champion but the execution feels a little off. But it's just one shitty players opinion. Thanks anyways!

