Nasus Rework idea {{champion:75}}

Ummm... no thank you... He needs very small but meaningful base stat increases and a better mastery tree for defense and he will be fine.

Also the game does not need to rework and over complicate every champions kit just because they are older. Most champions were reworked b/c they did not have a clear identity and for better or worse we have these new envisioned champions. Morde was a complete mess and still is. Skarner I have grown to like but honestly he was fine before. Gangplank didn't need a barrel mini game. Fiora did need a compass mini game.

Basically I feel like Riot really missed the larger picture with many of these updates and could have fine tuned instead of overhauled.

Nasus is a perfect specimen of balance. His whole kit is centered around a single damaging spell and every other ability he has is centered around it. He fullfills his role as a raid boss very well although now games have too much %/true damage, most tank items nerfed and damage items buffed and heavy snowball comps focused on mages with Rylai's that can make them all into perma slow CC machines with just one item.

Nasus isn't the issue and thus doesn't need or want a rework.

No rng pls.

So you literally took Nasus, removed his iconic stacking mechanic, made him unkillable in lane and turned him into Nautilus. ok

While I do like some of the ideas, I think his late game power would be even more absurd than it is now. Just imagine a Nasus with a build like for an insane amount of armor, decent MR, and still having 5k or more HP despite having almost no HP in his items.

I agree it is fun to have more mechanically complex champs in the game. This is largely the reason the game doesn't get stale because there's so much diversity. I've just been a Nasus main since I started playing in season 2 so I am just really cautious about them changing him. The reduction of Wither's range and the AS slow being reduced to 45% from 95% really hurt him in season 3 and he's largely been ignored since then.

With that said we have seen the largest shift in power go to early game over the last 3 seasons, where he's the weakest, with a bunch of soft nerfs to teleport, IBG, FH, TF, SV and the mastery pages that have virtually no defensive stats what so ever have indirectly nerfed him and put him in a precarious spot to play competitively.

So if we tie his life steal on to his W it will make him much easier to kill as he will need to take his W first to sustain any damage he takes in lane and delay his damage gains b/c he will be forced into an even more passive play style with no hope to trade. Also the pick up mini game is unnecessary. We have champion like Thresh and Bard who already do this.

I guess I just feel he already has a strong identity as a late-erish game champion that deals tremendous damage and is very difficult to take down. some of your ideas are neat but I feel they are over complicated too much. I'd say leave his Q as is. If wither is a skill shot make it infect other champions for half the amount if they touch each other giving him some team fight presence. Passive should remain he needs the life steal to survive the early game and make it to the mid game where he still shines a bit but add some mechanic that interacts with his Q stacks. 100 stacks 20% tenacity or 5% Armor and MR. He could gain further bonus's from stacking higher but not so much that it turns him into top farm bot only. Maybe have unique stacking gains by fighting with team or tower or monster fights. Ult I would leave as is as well.

LOL! I know Nasus is not real seriously it was just a method of conveying my point. But still why make him so mechanically difficult and different? Even if this is just for fun half that stuff could just be applied to a brand new champion. Personally I don't like the more mechanically difficult champions. I am getting older and my reflexes are starting to go down the tube. So simple kits fit better with me. I play Nasus, Trundle, Cho and Naut the most b/c they are fun but not mechanically frustrating for me. Honestly the only thing that makes Nasus feel dated is the extreme damage creep we got when they nerfed tank items, reworked ADC's and then it got REALLY bad when they did the mage update and the Satan Scepter Rylai's.

Nasus is viable in every elo but he requires a higher amount of dedication and perfection than a lot of others. There are challenger level Nasus Mains like Carnarius who continue to do well with him even at high levels of play.

If Riot does decide to rework him then w & e are the abilities to look at. They could keep the core but play around with combo interactions to maybe make it more satisfying for both Nasus mains and those who don't like him.

Leave him alone

he's fine he's simple he's fun I like that