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Nasus and the reasons why skillset is too strong.

Duskninjask·10/29/2013, 9:42:23 AM·1 votes·559 views

Nasus is an extremely powerful champion that I and I know many others believe should be nerfed. His skills allow his so much utility of everything needed in lane. He gets health, slows, lifesteal, lasting damage. This is all too much utility for a champion I believe. His counterpart, Renekton is so much weaker than Nasus is in many terms. An example of why he is so strong is that his Q also is way too strong as many other people have their stack of passive reduced, his stays and it allows him to be way too strong whilst being incredibly tanky. I think Riot should reconsider his skillset to make the game play more fair. Does anybody else think so? I know you do. Please type your comments here so i can understand your opinions and hopefully attract Riot's attention to this subject. Also please tell me how Riot should nerf Nasus, constructive criticism please. Lets be a mature community.

4 Comments

ArisenHero10/29/2013, 11:55:45 AM2 votes

To beat Nasus you just have to harass him and keep him from farming. Nasus is not very good in team fights if he has too few stacks on his Q. Garen comes to mind as a good counter because he can "cleanse" the slow with his Q. Also, as a team you should be able to take objectives while Nasus sits top and farms, take teleport for summoners so you can help with dragon, putting pressure on other lanes, etc.

Kãtãrinã10/29/2013, 3:02:48 PM2 votes

nasus isn't op by any means, if you let him farm his Q sure he is but until he farms his Q and gets items he isn't that great. Veigar gains permanent stacks for his Q but his Q amplifies all abilities by giving him PERMANENT AP

Solan Stonewhip10/29/2013, 3:17:49 PM2 votes

agree with the other posts. nasus has very specific vulnerabilities and counterplay. if you let him free farm then he can become a problem. but NOT an insurmountable one. he's also a later game champ because of how much farm he needs. very specific counter plays.

try ranged tops like jayce/elise/vlad against him. hell even yorick. renekton is actually stronger than him right now because he has an escape.

MackleDoge10/29/2013, 4:53:40 PM1 votes

People who think Nasus needs to be nerfed are the people that can't counter play him. Almost any ranged top can harass him out or zone him from Q farming if they actually try. Nasus has no strong engage or disengage and he honestly isn't exactly a strong chaser. To free farm his Q effectively he almost has to be off away from the team so he can't participate in team fights or objective plays. Only way to resolve that is to have him stop farming his Q in that free lane (which solves that problem right there) or to have him take teleport (which is on a pretty significant cooldown). I'm afraid you aren't going to find much evidence to show Riot how badly Nasus needs a nerf here, there are a significant number of other champions that need tactical game play balance to make them either playable at all or to make them more in line with other champions in terms of power and steamroll ability.