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Nasus Playstyle

Little Paws·1/10/2015, 10:42:29 PM·7 votes·1,941 views

I don't know how to write this without sounding "whiny" so I'll do my best.

From what I've seen from the large amount of games I've played that involved nasus in some way, his playstyle is completely linear. You ignore your lane opponent in order to farm, even if they are harassing you. Your passive, which gives you 10/15/20% lifesteal allows you to stay healthy in lane almost regardless of the amount of pressure your other laner can produce. If your under tower, it makes it easier for you to simply farm your q.

And ultimately, that is what nasus' play style is. Ignore your laner, and farm your q. Unless your opponent is someone that is fairly oppressive ( , I'm looking at you here. , I see you behind darius -_-), you will outscale them before the end of your laning phase assuming that your team does not feed horribly.

This absolutely does not feel rewarding to play against, or to play. I am an avid nasus fan, I enjoy the scaling on his q, I enjoy how his slow is unique in league, and I enjoy how his ult makes you feel unkillable. However, the play style is a problem. His laning phase is either you somehow manage to force him out of lane (which isn't happening because his sustain) or you will be almost useless to your team.

Before anyone says "you can roam" yes, yes you can. Doing so may net your team 1, or 2 kills, but Nasus will still be where he is. He will be farming, and a farming nasus is a problem. You can't ignore him because, lo and behold, he'll 3 shot your turret.

My problem is as thus: Nasus' playstyle rewards the player that doesn't actually want to play. It rewards the person that doesn't want to interact with their opponent, it allows gameplay to become stagnant until that player feels its time to actually play. And that shouldn't be what league is about.

League, like it or not, is an interaction between 10 people at any given time. If your top lane, it is an interaction between those 2 people, and they should be interacting. The person that doesn't want to play shouldn't be rewarded for it, it shouldn't be "okay".

Tl;dr: I wish nasus had a different play style, one that allowed more interaction between him and whoever he's against.

I would like to know everyone's thoughts on this. If thats a healthy play style, why? If it isn't why? I want to hear both sides.

16 Comments

SlackerboyTC1/10/2015, 10:53:06 PM6 votes

at least nasus gives you a chance unlike cough cough Akali Fizz cough*

cFlame1/11/2015, 2:55:49 AM2 votes

I think its fine, not like he'll win if you have a real player in the top lane. Unless of course, that player is a Nunu, then top is screwed. If I can destroy a fire skin Nasus as Olaf going 2/0 despite a turret, then imagine just what a pain it is to fight Jax, Riven, or Darius. Heck maybe even Sion is good against him, you just need to be hyper agressive and have your own sustain items for spell casting and taking minion aggro. (Crystaline flask, not cloth armor)

Sagemcdonald1/10/2015, 11:44:50 PM1 votes

I know that the author of this discussion does not like the Nasus play style, but in the whole concept of the game to have One or Two champions, (Nasus and Veigar) with a permanent stacking ability, which allows the player to just farm and "not play" is beneficial to the game. Like it or not, it allows new players to learn to CS, without being a liability to the team. (I personally rather have an AFK FARM ONLY Nasus on my team, than a feeding Fiora).

Just my view, Sagemcdonald (NA)

Jeddy0171/11/2015, 12:46:15 AM1 votes

So,do you have any specific idea of what playstyle Nasus should have (I want a crimson red lamborghini that was made in 2010) or are you asking a general question (I want a new car)?

As for me,I'm cool with Nasus's ignore opponents & farm playstyle (though there are times where I just go ham because I see an opportunity,my jungler is ganking or this god damn Riven is in my face). I mean if I wanted to interact with my opponent on a regular basis,then I play someone else.

YOU BEEN WARNED1/11/2015, 2:47:04 AM1 votes

Go away, you hold the assassin icon and pretend to like Nasus and playstyles. Assassins are the lowest interaction champions in the game.

What kind of interaction is 100-0 ? What gives you the right to speak?

Do you even mana? Do you know scaling, kiting, blinds, dashes, trade ? Lane control ?

I don't think you know Nasus well.

Omiwom1/11/2015, 3:42:06 AM1 votes

It's also a bad playstyle because the Nasus feels superior to everyone else and plays a sort of 'god' role.

kirbyzama1/11/2015, 6:45:53 AM1 votes

Nasus may be the closest thing League has to a single player campaign. Either him or Tryndamere .

Its hardly toxic, if he doesn't want to interact then force him too. Its just annoying. His power is inevitable like Vayne. A lot of champs have the let's just farm play style. At least Nasus doesn't bully out the enemy level 2 and then proceeds to afk farm into an invincible juggernaut like Ryze did. If a champ is going to have that play style they really shouldn't interact heavily as it has a chance of allowing them to win lane with aggression as well as get farmed up. As well if they don't have some way to survive early game then getting farmed up is impossible. Sure Nasus is a overly simplistic version of these ideas but that mostly comes from his age. I personally don't like it but I can't call Nasus unhealthy just cause I don't like him personally.

Leti the Yeti1/10/2015, 10:45:28 PM1 votes

I like that it gives the other laner the "NOTICE ME SENPAI" sort of feeling and that feels pretty good to me xD

Altricad1/11/2015, 7:27:51 PM1 votes

Nasus does have his counters that can cause him to despair

Olaf has true damage, an ulti that ignores his slow etc. I got crushed by an Olaf in lane and while I was still farming, Olaf was winning teamfights and suddenly GG.

The thing is playing Nasus requires you to have utmost patience which is why the people maining him rarely interact with the other laner. Let the same people play someone oppressive who scales really hard (like Azir ) and they'll still farm to victory instead of getting kills.

Little Paws1/10/2015, 10:52:41 PM1 votes

I think interacting with my opponent is fun. I want to see if I'm better, or they are. I want to trade, and come out on top (or lose >_>). Nasus takes away that interaction. It is still there with fizz and akali (to a small extent). But it's there. If you manage to kill fizz or akali, and keep them from getting kills, you'll win. If you manage to kill Nasus, he's going to go right back to farming. Good luck stopping him. That's just how it seems to me.