Dear Riot, Why does he have such great healing? I would understand his kit if he had no healing but in all games if a laner falls off early or the nasus hugs turret you've lost already. Then once you get to aram his stacks are doubled??? I dont understand why he heals so much? A suggestion I have is just to either nerf his healing or get rid of it completely. It just makes the game so much worse for everyone else. -Your tilted friend NOTCoyWolf
Ryelic2 votesHow else do you want him to win lane?
Nasus doesn't really do trades unless he's forced into them or procing runes since he's usually too busy farming stacks to be relevant midgame. He all-in's super hard when he gets to 6/gets stacks/gets items but is generally quite squishy before that and can easily be forced back/forced out of lane by a number of champions with ranged abilities or lane bullying. He needs the lifesteal so he can stay in lane long enough to actually become relevant to the game.
Yeah, he snowballs, just like most other top lane champs in the game. That's just top lane though - get ahead by enough and suddenly you can carry the entire game.
If you want to nerf his sustain, you can always just grab an item with grievous wounds - it'll hit him hard when he's trying to sustain through laning phase.
Otherwise, play smart and aggressive before 6/before stacks and you'll probably win lane. Win lane and nasus is stuck farming for stacks which basically means he'll end up useless for the majority of the game. You can't count him out since stacks are infinite of course, but every moment he's farming stacks is a moment he isn't demolishing towers or winning a fight during his splitpush.
NOTCoyWolf1 votesThe problem is I was playing as Yasuo with the regular build plus mortal reminder and keep in mind I was 13/4 Nasus was 1/0 with 200 stacks. I walk into the fight fairly confident given the difference in Kills and his items compared to mine. He hit me with one Q and my health went from full to 40% with one Q. How do you beat someone that two shots the fed champion?
Ryelic1 votesTo be fair, Yasuo is one of nasus's favorite matchups in top lane.
The problem is that outside of your shield, you're one squishy boi, so Nasus isn't gonna have any trouble dealing damage to you while it's down. (The general guideline to that matchup is to just all in everytime yasuo gets near nasus - he wins at basically every stage if you aren't massively ahead since he can just ult and go for q's every 2 seconds) .
General counterplay to yasuo is w -> e -> q's- you're heavily slowed, you lose your shield, and you lose quite a chunk of armor while you're still inside spirit fire. Doubly so if you don't have any minions to dash through. If you don't have mobility you're actually quite an easy target for Nasus to all-in, especially if you don't have R or summoners ready.
I have no idea how much gold nasus had, since oftentimes you tend to measure it more from CS or tower plating than actual kills, but assuming he has triforce done he is certainly a force to reckon with if you aren't building tanky.
Best general advice I can give is to NOT stand and fight. That's exactly what he wants you to do so that he can wither you and then q you to death. His R gives him a massive amount of stats, so don't underestimate him unless he's significantly underfed. Kite him out or use minions to take short trades and poke him down.
BLACK REALM GOD1 votes
