What runes do you use for Yasuo and Nasus?

Truely Fabulous·6/25/2015, 5:07:54 PM·1 votes·776 views

Hey,

So I just have the 2 free rune pages, 1 is for a malzahar and I'm trying to figure out the best runes with the most overlap (saves IP) that would be the best for Yasuo and Nasus. I'm probably going to keep armor yellows for any page, but I'm not sure what the most cost efficient way to build the 2nd page is. For any Yas or Nasus players, what reds, blues, and quints do you use?

5 Comments

FHMarshy6/25/2015, 5:10:24 PM1 votes

First of all, I personally don't recommend building rune pages specifically for a single champion.

That being said, I would think Yasuo and Nasus are two champions with complete different playstyle, so I would again advice you not to use the same page for both.

Photos of Ghosts6/25/2015, 5:09:59 PM1 votes

Uhm, I personally would go totally opposite on Yas and Nasus: full tank (maybe movespeed quints) on Nasus, crit+ad+armorpen+armor+mr on yas.

EndlessSorcerer6/25/2015, 5:27:50 PM1 votes

Added this section after I noticed you appear to be lacking in runes. Rather than making rune pages specialized for champions, I would recommend making two basic, general pages first to cover most champions.

AD Page: AD Marks and Quints, Armor Seals, MR Glyphs AP Page: AP Quints, Magic Pen (or AD if desperate) Marks, Armor Seals, MR Glyphs

If you want them to be even more generally applicable, it might be worthwhile to take one Armor Quint (the rest normal) and use Scaling Health Seals.

These are all cheap runes and will cover most champions relatively well, though not always the most efficient. You can build specialized pages afterwards.


For Nasus, I typically use:

  • Flat CDR Quints
  • Flat CDR Glyphs
  • Armor Pen Marks
  • Flat Armor Seals

Flat CDR helps you stack early and lets you cap out on CDR very early (either Frozen Heart, Black Cleaver, or Glacial Shroud and Kindlegem), which improves your damage and sustain. It's quite possible to hit 200 stacks by 10 minutes against an easy lane, which can make you a monster mid-game,

Armor pen provides Nasus with a lot of damage because:

  • You purchase Sheen
  • Your Q stacks deal physical damage
  • Your E reduces armor
  • Your ultimate grants AD

The seals are mostly there for early damage reduction against autoattacks and minions.