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Nasus Jungle (Hear me out)

LordFluffyJr·9/22/2015, 1:43:15 PM·1 votes·542 views

Before you bash this. Please. Read. Nasus is the champion we all joke about and hate. The fact his Q bop and do more than a 1k true damage smite is annoying as a jungler...Nasus will split push for days and kill you who ever stops him and then base. This is the one thing I don't like about lane Nasus. You have to go triforce for the sheen. Sheen is just really expensive and you have to wait till later for tanky items. Now I took nasus in the jungle.

My experience here was....something else. I got a leash gromp starting E. I then got Q level 2 maxing E all the way until about level 7 or 9. I get my slow at level 4. I get stacks off the Blue sentinel and blue buff, red sentinel and red buff. This gets you a lot of stacks considering you only used q 4 times.

With jungle nasus you aren't at the risk of split pushing and dying since you are some what safe in your jungle. Also with purple smite and blue buff....you will always have mana. You can get purple smite after your first two buffs then power farm into a cinderhulk merc treads. Keep in mind if you get the last hitting down in the jungle with Q....you will be so strong!

I know I'm insane...but I did bring smite tp top against teemo. Just tried to get through lane. Went triforce -> merc treads -> cinderhulk. The purple smite on cinderhulk gave me mana and made me tanky. I know I sound insane but holy hell....it was next level broken.

4 Comments

53436278DEL19/22/2015, 1:53:07 PM1 votes

diamond level advice legit

Shikigami9/22/2015, 2:03:21 PM1 votes

What I think is wrong with Nasus jungle is that he doesn't fulfill the tasks you need for a Jungler (as a note, him and heimer are the ONLY 2 champs who haven't been played in competitive this season).

Junglers need to be able to do 2 things : Objective control and pressure. Nasus really can't do either. Unless you max E, which you said you did, you can't clear the camps. Now this is fine and all, but it puts a damper on your Q stacks so it'll take longer to scale. Nasus' early game is atrocious, so the odds of you getting counterjungled by almost everyone is super high. You can't kill dragon unless you have both botlaners with you (solo dragons are pretty good in soloqueue) and you can't put pressure on any lanes (or even countergank).

All in all, only if they play really stupid can this be actually viable.

Tyren9/22/2015, 2:12:19 PM1 votes

I've seen some Nasus players take Frozen Gauntlet. He Withers you presses Q and you get slowed again, while being inside is AoE DoT.

I'd rather face a Nasus that builds Tri Force. At least I might be able to escape if he doesn't 1 - 2 shot me.