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@Riot: While you're changing Nasus, have you considered his E?

Wobly·10/6/2016, 1:22:16 PM·2 votes·546 views

Spirit Fire's huge amount of flat armor shred is out of place on a Juggernaut like Nasus. It has two negative side-effects on the champion:

  1. All that flat pen means Nasus is much better at killing squishies than tanks, which is counter intuitive for a Juggernaut. Juggernauts should be happy to hit tanky targets, even if they'd rather be slaughtering squishies.
  2. It also means he spikes hard in the mid game but starts falling off late as base armor values increase and enemies buy armor items. For a champ whose core fantasy is "hyperscaling Juggernaut" it's pretty weird to spike at 25 minutes.

You could change both of these issues by switching E from flat armor pen to % armor reduction. Maybe make it reduce enemy armor by 10/15/20/25/30%. You'd probably have to make follow up adjustments to the numbers but this would really help Nasus fulfill the role of a late game Juggernaut, without unbalancing him.

EDIT: To be clear, what I'm talking about here is a neutral to positive change in Nasus' power level. It's by no means supposed to nerf him, I don't think he's too strong, he's actually underpowered at the moment.

5 Comments

Civet1010/6/2016, 2:40:15 PM3 votes

How is it counter intuitive for a juggernaut to kill squishies? thats what pretty much all of them do. Juggernauts are high damage tanks, with low cc, who are easy to kite. They are mostly stronger early (lane bullies), but him being stronger later is what makes him unique from the others.

Chamuel8510/6/2016, 1:34:55 PM1 votes

I see that as making him fight better against tanks and bruisers while more or less not affecting his ability to kill squishies as late game his stacks pretty much guarantee a 1 or 2 shot on the squishies.

Ravenous Howls10/7/2016, 7:43:40 PM1 votes

Agreed. Many of us Nasus Mains have called for this. Honestly it isn't the E that let's me kill a squishy it's my stacks and Wither. This change would go along way to fulfill his late game Raid Boss fantasy so he can still chunk tanks and be a bit more relevant in team fights which is all the rage according to RIOT...