So are Nasus' Q and Passive ever going to be looked at?

Lil Lewd Witch·4/13/2018, 2:01:25 AM·8 votes·3,973 views

Literally all the runes and items over the years have done nothing but make Nasus spike faster and harder and he goes untouched while other champions get whole ability changes around them.

Nasus : I need to stack Q to win

Riot: Here, its low cooldown, low mana, and high damage

Nasus : But I need items to make Q stronger

Riot: Here, item 3057, it gives you more mana, cooldown, and empowers your Q

Nasus : But laners will want to bully me away from farm

Riot: Here, you get lifesteal off your passive so you can sustain in lane

Nasus : But laners might try and poke me to get pressure

Riot: Here, we made the Resolve tree that makes poking impossible and pointless

Nasus : But what if they try and all in me, I'm scared of this conqueror rune everyone is talking about

Riot: Here, you have wither, its a massive slow and affects their auto attacks, you're safe

Nasus : But what if they try and freeze the lane under tower and make me over extend?

Riot: Here, you have Spirit Fire, it has good base damage to clear waves and break any freeze

Nasus : Do I have a weakness?

Riot: Unfortunately yes you have some very major weaknesses, before you base 1 time and somewhere after 50 minutes, you can't win there.


Okay, I'm ranting a little bit, but Nasus' current skill floor is too low for the reward players get

18 Comments

Sarjin284/13/2018, 5:00:26 AM5 votes

OK well here I go. Firstly, theres a massive weakness to his passive... its called item 3123 item 3165 . Yeah.... it hurts. 2. Nasus is weak to several champions....kiting, powerful all ins, and anything ranged. Your basically saying "Champ too hard to play against, change him"... hear that a lot from people who struggle vs. Tryndamere "ulti makes him so hard."

Kite him. Don't let him hit you. If he can't hit you, you won't die. Wither? You played it wrong. Its easy to keep a distance. Freeze wave where it works for you. If he cant Q, he can't stack. Kills things with E? ANY idea how much mana that takes? and I assure you it doesn't give stacks. Biggest early game and end game weakness is friggin team playing. If your trying to win 1 v 1 vs nasus because you don't want to lose the lane phase, you need to rethink your gameplay. Heck you should WANT him to take your tower asap so he cant farm anymore. ANY cc will kill him and if he can't escape he's dead.

Bottom line he can be strong, but he's only strong because low elo have this idea they need to be able to 1 v 1 him with any champion building what they think is the best build for their champ and not for the situation. Notice there is a REASON he doesn't get played in pro play? He will get shat on instantly from teamwork and intelligent gameplay.

Anonagon4/13/2018, 3:14:36 AM4 votes

While I do think this is a bit of an exaggeration, I have to agree strongly with the basic premise that recent changes have made Nasus too powerful without any consideration for the experience of playing against him or the ability for his enemy laner to significantly interact with him post-6.

Venompaw4/13/2018, 3:02:31 AM4 votes

Nasus sucks, KITE TO ETERNITY.

TyroneWatermelon4/13/2018, 5:02:04 AM3 votes

I don’t think the “perma cc nasus because you got no other counterplay way” is a good design

Kaìju4/13/2018, 6:11:43 AM3 votes

My biggest gripe with him is the fact he has a free 10 to 20% life steal. It's not interactive, and either really strong or really weak depending on the matchup. For example I can't play a tank and make him hit me with Bramble for the heal reduc, he can just hit minions. However if I just first buy Executioners, he doesn't get to have a passive. It's super binary in a bad way.

IllegalBagel4/13/2018, 3:57:18 AM2 votes

If I look at your match history will I see a lose against a nasus recently before making this post?

haaaaaaalp4/13/2018, 3:44:30 PM1 votes

Skill floor isn't really something that the balance team focuses on. There are far too many more pressing issues.

Andrey03454/13/2018, 7:21:06 AM1 votes

That Spirit fire has like 80 mana cost in early game and it barely does enough damage to actually stop freezing.

Lord of Math4/13/2018, 7:26:55 AM1 votes

Singed wait a second, why do I have only 500 movement speed.

Snowman Arc4/13/2018, 8:18:12 AM1 votes

Well, early game, if Nasus uses W or E for the reasons you stated, he is gonna run out of mana pretty instantly.

iTaLenTZ4/13/2018, 10:10:36 AM1 votes

Try to first pick nasus and watch how you get slaughtered by Darius DrMundo Cassiopeia Camille Heimerdinger Illaoi Gnar Fiora Gangplank Jayce Kled Kayle MasterYi Mordekaiser Renekton Quinn Pantheon Olaf Tryndamere Trundle Swain Yorick

yeah dude Nasus is broken......

Big Lincoln4/13/2018, 10:34:09 AM1 votes

nasus sucks dick right now, why would you nerf him