Would nasus ba a good champion to climb with?

No, Nasus relies on his team not throwing the game in the first twenty minutes to win.

Even if you get perfect stacks by twenty minutes, if the bot lane enemy Jinx or Vayne is really fed they'll shred your defenses like paper.

In low elo he is great but from what ive heard others say, everyone knows how to shut him down once you get a little higher

I'de ask your team if they are comfortable basically fighting a 4v4 until you have stacks. If so, I say go for it.

Go dunkmaster Yi and get nexus at 15

In low elo it'd probably be a bad idea to play Nasus since you rely on farming for about 20-30 minutes before actually doing anything to help your team and they'll be constantly dying and blaming you for afk farming.

get good at riven and carry yourself and others to plat, destroying without a second glance even your heftiest contenders,

count your GG "LC$ pro big playz" with that cancerous one stop shop champ

If your opponents have no idea what they are doing, has absolutely ridiculous scaling and split potential.

I'd also recommend you look at because he is a very simple champion mechanically, scales off of armor (yes, the tankier you build, the more damage you do) and can, after a certain point, go jump on the 12/3/10 ADC trying to split bot and kill them while retaining half of your health bar (unless it's because Fucking Percent Health True Damage)

In low ELO everyone knows to shut him down too. Nasus = camped.

Nassus is a pretty decent choice, but he has some painful lane matchups (Vlad, volibear, etc.), so you probably don't want to first-pick him. If you can learn to play safe, and get good at farming under turret and/or freezing waves, Nassus is a great choice. Just farm up for a long time, then make a clutch TP to get a double kill, then 3-shot turrets with your Q.

It's not the Champion you pick but the composition you put together against the enemy's composition. Should for some reason your team-mates be clueless about how to form a composition then just queue-dodge. This type of team typically just feeds all day anyway.

Yes. Nasus is very good but be aware that he has some hard counters that will beat him in lane (teemo/vayne/etc.) There are people in high divisions that play a lot of Nasus so don't let anybody discourage you from playing him just because they don't see him played in LCS. Streamers like sirhcez play him in Diamond all the time.

You say you can't use Shen's full potential. Assess what potential you are looking for. Shen's potential is a gold split push. You need to know exactly what is happening with your team at all times so you can make the decision to push or to help out your team. The goal of pushing is to either win an objective at the risk of losing a team trade (nobody dies if people died then you made the wrong decision) or force 1-2 people to come deal with you. If someone deals with you, then you tp in and then you're fighting 4v5 the person dealing with you can't teleport like you do.

With Nasus, it's similar because Nasus needs so much farm to reach that status and you will be in a lane pushing and farming with teleport. The presence with Nasus is less than Shen but if you have trouble making decisions as Shen I'd be careful of making them with Nasus who is even weaker than Shen in this aspect.

You say you struggle with Shen because people won't follow up on your plays.

Let me tell you as a main that it is 10x worse with susan. I'm not sure why, maybe people think they can do whatever they want early game because they have Nasus to autowin late game, but when I play Nasus my team likes to feed to high hell early game and it completely screws him over. Nasus scales with farm and not gold, which means if he falls behind (and he is utter shit when behind) he can't just get a couple of assists and catch back up like other champs, if he misses farm he is permanently set back. So when a fed ADC starts camping him and he gets 3 man dived under turret it's painful. Contrary to popular belief, Nasus is actually extremely bad in low elo where games snowball out of control in 10 minutes and if he is on the losing team then the game ends long before he hits any kind of powerspike. But he is also bad in high elo where even though people play more even games, enemies know how to play against him, punish his early game, punish his 4v5 etc. He is overall pretty mediocre to be honest, even in the best situations he is low-risk low-reward and really can't carry on his own.

Bronze? No. Silver? Yes. Gold? Yes, though less reliable than in Silver. Platnium? You really shouldn't. Diamond? You really, really shouldn't.

He can work anywhere that isn't Bronze. Bronze you get teams that feed super hard and can't hold out into late game. And past silver the player base starts to get a clue on how to beat you.

you can easily reach any division as nasus, but the problem starts when you hit master and above. ppl there understand how to deal with him, you can expect being kited to death, camped, and it's basically really difficult to carry single handedly. if you do everything correctly with him tho (understanding when to pressure and when to help your team, lane mechanics, etc), you can expect having 70% win rate even in diamond