I know what champs fk me over and how they fk me over and what strats to employ to fk me over
Is a thing for nasus to counteract such counters? or am I never gonna be able to play nasus in draft mode :l Am I just gonna do horribly once I go up against anyone with a brain?
I know alot of sites tell me who nasus is good against and what I should do and who counters nasus and what they should do... arguably not the most helpful thing ever
if you can try to stand in or slightly behind the bulk of you minion wave and try to bait them into using abilities that will hit your minions, causing the wave to push. even if the dont hit your minions try to bait away from a nearby bush. that way when they do hit you they aggro your minions still causing the lane to push to you. Basically ignore and leave them alone. save a wither if they try to all in, and maybe a q if they have no minions around. DO NOT DO NOT E the wave. if you do you will cause it to push. only use when theres a huge wave at your tower to lessen the size when a wave of yours is coming to try to freeze right outside tower range. play mind games. pretend to go in to get a q stack and back away again trying to bait an ability use.(big against things such as teemo) rush cdr. first back should get you AT LEAST glacial shroud or kindle gem if not both. (easier to do against ad tops as you should have started with cloth armor) if you follow advice on not hitting them ever ususally once you hit about 150ish stacks or so you can really surprise them and often get a kill. 10+ minutes in lane of you being passive they will very likely end up cocky and you can use this to your advantage. good e placement ahead of where they are running, ult ghost and lotsa q's. when engaging again pretend to be going for a minion. who are these counters you are having trouble with?
I don't play Nasus but in learning Renekton, I learned that letting Nasus farm under tower is what ultimately kills you in the end. So get good at farming under tower, and let that enemy Renekton/Garen think they've won the lane because it stays pushed ;)
PS, if they push under your tower, you get the CS and they don't.
Any champion that has a strong early game/laning phase/good trades will beat nasus in lane.
I try and play aggressive early with him with darius. Turns out well.
Never first pick Nasus, or you will be put up against the likes of 
or 
, If you are one of the later picks and they choose somebody not as threatening like 
(basically tanks) then you should be fine. Also, even though your early game is ass, if you are a good turtler you can turn a lane around once you get 6. Besides most of your "counters" are squishy, which means around a certain point that 
etc will feel bad for not choosing a tankier champ like 
, because one Q will turn the trade into your favor completely.
Actually I find Nasus pretty easy to go up against most champions, even his counters. The ones I have the most troubles with are people like Malphite.
Let them push your lane and farm from turret. If you get used to this, you'd surprise yourself as to how much farm you'll actually manage to get doing so. Also, when your lane opponent leaves the lane to roam or is dead, take the advantage especially if they aren't running teleport to push the wave into their turret and proxy farm, making them lose XP and Gold from missed CS you're feeding to their turret.
If you play Nasus correctly you can get 450+ stacks within 20 minutes. Even so, getting 280-300 stacks by the 20 minute mark is pretty decent.
The easiest way to counter your counters is to play safe. :)
EDIT: Also, don't forget to run sweeper if you know your enemy top laner is warding. You can use the sweeper to spot the ward and Q it on the last hit to get a free +3 stacks.
As a Pantheon main, I love going up against Nasus, it's tough, even though Panth counters him early, if I get greedy with my farm then I push to far, if I get greedy with full combo pokes then he slows, hits his AOE, and pummels me while his minions help him do damage. I don't know about other champs but if you do go against Pantheon if you can kill him first then you've pretty much won lane, you'll snowball and he won't be able to touch you. If not then you will have to learn to farm under turret, which I know some Nasus players like.
I've played a few recently they were really passive wouldn't step up to hit minions or use his AOE, after I killed him he literally sat back the whole time out of vision, and let me push the lane to his tower, where I was able to spear him, and still make him pay for every minion he took, it was really pitiful, how he didn't even try and fight back.
go AP nasus? It throws off people who think you are gonna be focusing on Q farm (of course still farm Q when possible). Your E does a chunk of damage once you have liandry's bought if you can keep people on it (wither slow, or in a team fight). It isn't as great as a late game huge Q stacked nasus and you will be squishier, but your "counters" don't generally counter both play styles at the same time.
Nasus counters literally nothing early game.
Literally nothing counters Nasus late game.
That is the way of the doge, and I am fine with it.
