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Nasus is op :(

Immp·1/17/2015, 4:50:33 AM·3 votes·1,172 views

I wouldn't have much of a problem with Nasus if not for his ult, his slow and passive. First off, his slow might as well be a short stun because the slow amount and duration is ridiculous. It might be his only form of cc, but it is really over powered. This slow makes running away from Nasus difficult when it is uses right. His ultimate. . . I really hate this ultimate. It makes him unbelievably tanky, makes him get a ridiculous amount of health for.. 15 SECONDS?!?! It's really too long and his kit combined is really deadly. Take gnar, in his mega gnar form he gets a lot of max health but not for 15 seconds. It's not that good of an example because later you can go mega gnar really quickly. His passive gives him a stupid amount of lifesteal 10% when he starts. If Nasus gets a long sword starting out, he can basically have a vampiric scepter but + 2% more life steal. I really like lifesteal and value it on all my ad champions as a good sustain in lane and in fights. With a complete build a Nasus can have 40%+ lifesteal. At that point it won't do much but that is 2 bloodthirsters on most other champions, that's 7000 gold while Nasus can get it for half the price with his passive. Given this would be late game but getting 2 bloodthirsters is not an easy task and not very cost good for most champions, Nasus can get it and more without having to double up on items. All i'm saying is, Nasus is op. Please in the comments or whatever tell me how to counter it's getting to be a problem because I can't counter him whenever I fight him he just waits until he's low and ults and I try to run but he uses his slow and I can't get away. summoner 14 summoner 11 Nasus summoner 11 summoner 14

8 Comments

GankedByWindows1/17/2015, 5:08:16 AM3 votes

Nasus is countered by farm denial. What Nasus does is forces his team to 4v5 while he farms up his stacks. If he doesn't have stacks, he doesn't do damage and you can ignore him.

In lane, you need to make him pay for every cs he gets. Deny him cs as much as you can by freezing the wave and apply pressure so he can't move up to the wave. Make sure you ward well so you don't get ganked while doing this. His 10% life steal seems like a lot, but when he can't get to the wave, it is less than worthless. If you're a ranged champ like Gnar, you can hit him under his tower as well so he can't farm.

To address your complaints about his abilities:

  1. His slow, while good, is NOT as good as a stun. Slows allow you to fight back and Nasus' specifically is only good if he is ahead and is using it to chase you. A stun has the capacity to stop your skills and prevents movement and summoner spells.

  2. His ultimate is also very good. However, all it does is make him tanky. In lane, you have the option of backing off until it ends, or going in for the kill when you know you can burn through his ultimate as well. In team fights, his ultimate is more threatening. However, it is only 600 base health. Endgame, it isn't all too much. 2 AA from an adc with Last Whisper will be taking that out of him.

As a side note, if a Nasus built life steal against you, he didn't build tank and that is your opening there. He is now more squishy than normal and vulnerable to being bursted down.

TL;DR Don't let him farm his Q stacks, or snowball other lanes hard while he farms. If you let him get to endgame, he will murder you, and your entire team because that is what he is meant to be.

Epilogue of Life1/17/2015, 5:24:26 AM1 votes

Nasus is one of the few balanced champs RN actually...b4 we bitch about Nasus, how about we nerf Fizz and Gnar and stuff...

N3mO061/17/2015, 3:26:34 PM1 votes

just a cap on his q...gg balanced

DoraTheBrown1/17/2015, 9:10:46 PM1 votes

r u mad dat u loss to a nasus in lane and he shit on ur team?