How it feels to be the Jungler for a top lane Nasus

Lol if he is smart, his magical w button can setup some good ganks. But some people dont understand the concept of a minimap and team communication

Actually... A dozen or so last hits is 36 damage. Let's assume he uses his Q 8 times during a big team fight. That's 288 damage. I'll run a bit of armor through it, reduce it by 30%, and bam, 200 damage during the teamfight. A couple Q stacks go a long way.

Also, just like to point out I completely agree and every time I play Nasus I throw out a Wither at the last second and chase them down, because it's almost always a kill.

My favorite Nasuses(?) are the ones that think "farming Q" means freezing the lane, and proceed to sit there, not using Q, for upwards of 20 seconds, because I honestly don't know. But yeah. Farming Q means your Q is always on CD.

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That's because most nasus's are solely concerned with the idea that AFK farm=win.

they think that by playing nasus, they can not have to deal with a teams bullshit and be able to solo the enemy team, if they can just get enough farm

what they don't understand is that nasus lategame is overrated, because by then, everyone deals a shit-ton of damage, and he, with no gapcloser, just melts.

A good nasus will coordinate his ganks with yours get a kill, put himself ahead in lane and stretch that lead because he is nasus. A bad nasus will take TP and never use it except to go back to lane and continue his AFK farm

As Nasus, I always respond to ganks. Once my jungler gets into position, I aggro my lane opponent to draw their attention and set up for the gank. Yes, I could get more stacks by farming minions, but that's not why I want the gank. The gold and xp from a kill is nice, but putting me ahead of my lane opponent in huge. If I can get the advantage, press them back to their turret and free farm, I've got a great set up for victory, and that's what ganks help me do.

I sort of agree, but disagree on a few points.

Nasus doesn't just melt, first of all. Because he is super tanky unless building full damage. Which is stupid.

And the enemies will get CCed as well, unless you have an extremely unorthodox composition. Nasus also has one of the strongest slows in the game, so single target shouldn't be a problem.

I'm going to throw some shit into the blender with something that doesn't matter, but Nasus late game really isn't overrated. technically he has infinite scaling, making him the best late game champion (next to others). But honestly, building a champions as full tank and having an ability that does 500 damage with a 2 second cooldown is pretty much the definition of strong late game. The only difficulty he has is getting the ability off, which isn't a problem in most cases.

I play AFK farm nasus very often, and it's been met with great success. You don't need to be in other lanes to help your team, honestly, and I'd prefer that my jungler doesn't gank for me in lane (opening up more gank potential for my teammates). After a kill or two their jungle will start showing up, making your life harder anyway. Kills are irrelevant to me as Nasus, because the extra 300 gold isn't going towards anything super amazing, just another defensive item. And let's say you get to AFK farm top lane, and at 15 minutes you have 250 farm, you can pretty much 2 v 1 at this point. Which means you can put constant pressure on top lane, making the rest of the team a 4 v 3. I rarely do this, just wanted to point out that while an AFK Nasus seems useless, it is still knowledge and skill dependent and helps the team. Personally, I rarely split push as Nasus unless there's nothing majorly important to do. If my team is rotating around the map, I'll be farming top lane getting stacks. When shit hits the fan, that's what my TP is for so I can help there.

Well if Nasus is doing well you will hopefully win within 20-30 min because after that Nasus starts falling off and is better off not being with the team and just split pushing all day as he is pretty good at demolishing people 1v1 and towers... however in teamfights he can struggle getting anything done because he is so vulnerable to CC and kiting...

You guys should have won half of those stacks ago lol In all seriousness though, wait for a nasus to get 6 and he can contribute much more.

Yeah, at 700+, you start one shotting bruisers with your Q+Crit. Trinity Force gets to be so painful at that point.

or that moment when a nasus has 400+ stacks but it takes your entire team to kill him after you have slowly taken down the other 4 players on the team...and it still takes 4 of your team members AND 25-30 seconds to kill the bastard.... THIS BLOODY BASTARD GAAAAH

A good Nasus won't AFK farm forever, at 500 stacks you can help out your team. And that only takes 30 minutes if you aren't doing it perfectly.

I dont mind if the jungler gets all of the kills if he is actually ganking for me..just means they snowball from the kill and I get to snowball more with easy q stacks while the enemy is dead.

And riot cared not at all for the lp lost that day. RIP.

I can confirm, 5 is absurd unless you count every "kill the ward, do a camp, come gank". 1-2 is pretty average, especially for top.