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Tips Against Nasus in Top Lane Tips Provided by MOBAFire Guide Authors
I Am Goliath says “His early game is so weak this lane should be a breeze for you, another great thing about this matchup is his wither does not affect your W at all since it's a fixxed rate of fire, I personally like to build Cull in this matchup since you can get away with it, early on I push him into turret, but at lvl 6 onwards I like to try to keep the wave on my side of lane to make him come up to CS and then punish him, you only really have to be kinda scared when he uses his ultimate especially if he is running conqueror so sometimes I'll save my E and bait out his R by walking into him then just E away and wait for his ultimate to drop before reengaging. You outscale him hard and should be able to do way more in teamfights. ”
Anoying bro5 says “Poke him the entire lane. Do not let him step up to farm, if he does, then punish him. Freeze the wave whenever possible. Riposte his Q damage, or his W if you can predict it. DO NOT fight him when he is in his ult. Make him use it then back off. In this match up you sadly have to mirror him the whole game to deny him from farming and scaling.”
MrDomian says “Hit him early and destroy him with your R.
Don't let him farm in early game.
Run away when he uses his R.
Very important is anty-heal - Bramble Vest.”
SaltCat says “You beat him early but , after 6 he becomes really really strong, he can easily 1v1 you if you dont have bork and a lead, never let him farm for free”
Raen says “After getting buffed he became more scary nowadays. Try to all in him at lvl 1, you need to punish him all the time for most of creeps he wants to stack. Time works in favor for Nasus so try to end game ASAP. You won't be able to kill him when he will get enough stacks to kill you. QSS is helpful to remove his AS and MS slow from W. Your E blocks his Q. Bork recomended vs Nasus.”
RTO says “He is squishier, and easier to cope with early game. Try to harass him off getting stacks, but be careful of an all in, especially post level 6.”
quinn adc says “Run MR runes because nasus will go E max and his only damage early is his E.
Why Phase Rush? Well, think about how Nasus ever wins against Quinn. Nasus only wins with his W wither ability, where he slows you with wither, which also slows your Attack speed, and then walking up to you to cane you to death.
Now, I go 5head mode on Nasus and counter his legit only way to win lol. If nasus EVER withers me, I then instantly proc phase rush.
The Move speed from phase rush is nice, but I run it because it also applies 75% slow resistance, which actually renders Nasus Wither USELESS!!!! If he withers, you proc phase rush and now you're able to run away to safety until it wears off.
Play the lane very aggressively early, deny stacks, and the most important thing is to try to weave autos level 6 onwards because we don't want to waste procing phase rush in later levels.
If we accidently proc phase rush post 6, a good nasus will immediately wither after your PR is down and cane you to death. If you save it up, then he has no way to ever beat you in lane.
Nasus has incredible lane sustain early, but extremely weak, so make sure to play bully mode because he can't do much if your PR is up.
How to win early if nasus plays passive is to slow push the waves, then when it crashes, the wave will slow push back towards you, and when it does, you will FREEZE AND ZONE TO DENY NASUS FROM FARMING!
Fun Fact: If you blind nasus right when he presses W, you will actually cancel his wither lmfao. This requires perfect timing of course, but very cool if you succeed with it :)
Also, your Vault can cancel Nasus's Q if you time it correctly since it is programmed as an auto attack, so keep that in mind!”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via Fling. You will either have to freeze your lane or proxy and roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: Rylai's Scepter, Demonic Embrace, Boots of Swiftness or Mercury's Treads) (Outscaling Edge: Nasus) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Singed Early, Nasus Mid/Late Game)”
Boptimus says “Poor Doggo can't walk up to the lane without taking half his health bar. Admittedly this lane can be rough if you don't know how to control the wave, but early on theres really nothing he can do about you. If he scales you're screwed.”
Fryx says “Nasus is so hard to stop. Try not to push the wave until Level 5 and don't invest too much mana into harassing him. Make full use of Manaflow Band and Harass him hard Level 5 so you can All in him at Level 6. Eventually he will be strong so play for the team and kite him with your Q later. Don't overinvest in punishing him you will not really be able to stop him anyway since you will build tank. Give all kills to your Jungler.”
Amphawn says “If he gets an early lead its GG. On one hand, you want to prevent him from free farming stacks, but on the other he sustains better than you. Watch out for his W, as if youre caught away from tower and don't hit your Q, youre probably dead. You can outscale him if you farm well and if he doesn't get any early kills. Freeze as often as you can, and if you get a lead, fast push often so he can't get as much farm. Ask your jungle to try and push him out of lane so you can get better farm than him. You don't need to kill him, you just need to get him out of lane. Late game Nasus's big weakness is that he gets kited super easily, but if he withers you or gets on top of you, he can basically 2 shot you in most cases. Buy GW.”
maxlid3 says “A good Nasus player will try to all-in you with his slow. Keep your W ready and try to deny him most of his farm. He can go Blue-Nasus (Mana) and spam E to poke you hard.”
SunFalk says “He his very tanky. He has a slow. He has a good auto attack enhance. He has a lot of sustain. - Nasus is a late game hard carry, to deny that, you'll need to play it early before he starts to kill you, deny his CS and don't let him farm. At the late game, make sure your team is able to be smart anough to go make the Nasus stop farming or split pushing.”
IvernLover74856 says “As ever with Nasus, you have to hard pressure him off CS. When he ults, run away with Q and W and kite it out. You need a gold lead to kill this mofo.”
FeedLaneGetCaryd says “Freeze the lane. Contest every single minion that he would try to stack. On lvl 6 he does have kill pressure on you, but you are way more useful in mid game than Nasus.”
SettVEVO says “I mean he's supposed to suck early right. And he does, easy lane 1-6. A good way to get a lot of damage onto him is using E when he goes for a cannon cause he WILL go for a cannon. Tower dive him if he's low enough and he's not level 6. Now this actually becomes a matchup when he hits 6 and has sheen, he might even win, it depends on how healthy he is and how healthy you are, a great tip is to W one of his Qs, of course not the first ones, but once you have enough grit, always try to land a stun before it though, even though he doesn't have a dash, everyone has flash and if he flashes it you are dead. You won't stop him from stacking, but it doesn't matter, you will ult him away from your team and onto theirs. Wait until he ults to get even more damage. If it reaches really late game he might seem like a huge threat but at that point he gets kited to death and it just is an adc game so peel for yours and win the game.”
Viego99 says “easy for early games.you win every duel. he ignore you and just stack q .so you need to kill him pre 6 . after 6 he kill you like a doll.(if you ahead you kill kim after 6) nasus outscale viego but he need q stack if he have little q stack you easly destroy him any stage of the game.yourteamfight is better.”
Yumi Project says “This matchup sucks! You can try to forbid him some stack but anyway you can't send him afk. Rush some antiheal, then wait for is engage. Stay away from his circle and then all-in him.”
RareParrot says “easy lane unless they are smart and max E and start Dorans ring, be careful at 6 as one misposition and getting withered will get you killed because just sheen and 100 stacks can beat Teemo in a stat check.”
BoilTheOil says “Take Conqueror. Do the same early strat as I said to do against kayle. If he gets Stacks on you it's actually really bad, but as long as you prevent him from getting them it's fine. If he walks up auto him and use Q, and if he tries to run away pull him back in and beat his shit in even more to remind him he's a dog. If he maxes E then you're kinda fucked because you can't deny him CS if he does. Depending on his stacks he will be able to fight you level 6 and if he has spellbook he can switch to ignite and beat your ass so watch out for that. ”
Rhoku says “TL;DR - EASY LANE. DON’T LET HIM STACK/DON’T EAT TOO MUCH POKE. PHASE RUSH IS RECOMMENDED. CONQUEROR WITH TENACITY STACKING WORKS AS WELL BUT PHASE RUSH IS BETTER. DON’T FALL BEHIND NO MATTER WHAT.
The Nasus matchup is somewhat difficult as if you ever fall behind, you will never be able to catch back up to him. He can win fights with an entire item behind sometimes because of his Ultimate which is depressing. The key is to stomp him early on in order to make sure you have a big lead by level 6. You are able to do this if he goes the normal Q max Nasus. The E max Nasus is a different story. He won’t be scaling as hard but he will be poking you down hard. The thing is, Doran’s shield or even second wind on its own is enough to negate it as long as you don’t eat every single E. He also has sustain with his passive. You should be freezing him off of the wave if he doesn’t have his ultimate/if its pre-6.
The biggest problem when fighting Nasus is that ultimate makes him ridiculously tanky and cranks up his DPS to an unreal state. His wither stops you from kiting him properly. The clear way to counteract this is to bait out his ultimate and then disengage. Some Darius players go full tenacity (Merc boots, Legend:Tenacity, Unflinching). But the simpler way is to just take Phase Rush. It helps in early fights as he can’t disengage with Wither and it is great as you can just E+Auto+W him when he activates his ultimate. If you lose this lane, it is over. Build Cleaver into full tank and peel for your team. Be careful of ganks as he is great at setting them up.”
PH45 says “Try to make use of his weak early game. Try to force him away from minions early levels and try to get the wave to bounce to you while you cheater reset. If you play smart you can win this matchup but later on his W's attack speed and movespeed slow will make it hard for you to kill him. Ask your jungler for a gank or even a dive if you can kill him since he will eventually scale to a raid boss.”
Drake6401 says “The game meta is shift in Nasus's favor and against Renekton so this has been moved up into Even. You beat him in most fights, Nasus wins lane if you can't kill him at least 3 times and deny him farm. A good Nasus knows how to farm under tower while you're forced to stay overextended. You need a competent jungler for this matchup so you can properly get a lead for your team while Nasus is small. Your JG should look to invade when you're pressed up, go for Herald and look for dives. Bad junglers will ignore Nasus top and let him free farm. Nasus has cheaper core items than Renekton so you may feel a temporary power shift when he completes his first armor item and boots. I rush a Last Whisper if he's scaling armor.
Nasus is also a nightmare to fight if his jungler camps you. His Wither is basically your instant doom in many cases.”
lol Wero says “Nasus players will just focus on csing. Poke him to death and build an Executioner Calling.
Down side is Nasus scales way better than Neeko later on in the game.”
Sovereign Kitten says “Depends on the player but Nasus players either max (E) and deal a ton of Magic Damage with Doran’s Ring or build Spirit's Visage and focus entirely on trying to max out as many stacks as they possibly can with (Q), while maxing (W) which slows you for 95% (over a duration). This is why Phase Rush is so good coupled with the boots of swiftness, as we acquire 75% Resist to slow + UNIQUE 25% Resist to slow, they stack and work much better than Mercury's Treads. You should be focusing all of your efforts on preventing him every single cannon minion stack by blinding him before they die. You don't counter him outside of laning, he counters you severely late.
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ForgottenProject says “He is Over-buffed since the preseason. Scales better than anyone else yet doesn't have that bad of an Early-Game. Once Nasus gets ahead he stays ahead.
[1]Q-Poke Vitals on him whenever you have the chance, Keep the Pressure on but don't think that he's just a punching bag till he has stacks.
[2]Get Executioner's Calling After Tiamat since his Q will start to heal him at that point.
[3]Slow-Push Waves into his turret so he has a difficult time stacking up. DON'T LET HIM FREEZE!
[4]When a Nasus walks up to your AA range the first thing he will do is use his Q, so Parry that(Good Nasus will bait your parry out so beware).
[5]you beat nasus till the Mid-game so you should try to kill him before then.
[6]If you roam, make sure you get objectives or else you're trading nasus stacks for nothing.”
LiL Bunnie FuFuu says “Nasus is obnoxious because of how hard he scales, making him a monster in the mid-lategame no matter what. Fortunately his Q does physical damage and Thresh's armor stacking can counter this to a certain extent. Grasp build recommended to scale with him. Bully him hard pre-6 and use your ult and flay to push him away if/when he tries to all in.
Thresh should never lose teamfights to Nasus. With a little CDR Thresh can permanently stun him making him useless unless your team is too weak to finish him off.”
Stinkee says “Because you are a tank, Nasus is basically going to ignore you in lane and stack Q. Most Nasus players will get greedy for minions, use this to your advantage. Charge your Q near a minion you know he is trying to stack on. The best way to deal with Nasus is to freeze the wave under your tower and force him to walk all the way up to CS. If you freeze under tower your jungler will probably come gank and you can kill him. You can take any keystone against Nasus but I would recommend Grasp. Think about rushing a healing reduction item such as Bramble Vest then build Plated Steelcaps and a mythic item.”
MythicMike says “Nasus is extremely weak early on so you have to deal with him then. Poke him constantly and make his CS as bad as possible. He will most likely tunnelvision on CS which makes landing your abilities quite easy. He has a super slow that can make him a bit hard to all in. But poking him and forcing him out of lane is more than good enough.”
iZeal says “Slap him around until he gets too big and you regret your life choices. Then remember that it's still Nasus so you can CC him during fights and let your team murder him for you. Stridebreaker gives you a 3 second slow to combat his Wither chase potential.”
A_Drunk_Carry says “The pupper version of Yorick. And an inferior version imo. Nasus gets rekt by your wall. He gets rekt by your ghouls. Just be sure not to push too hard early, as he'll free stack your ghosts. Nasus hates Yorick W, though. Get grievous for his regen. ”
P1Legend says “You never really lose lane to a Nasus. Deny his farm, at level 6, he is going to try to Ult + whither you. Just W + W away and he will have wasted his ult. You can force him into taking trades with you while denying his farm, and you can heal up all the damage he deals to you with W + W. He also never really gets healing reduction. If he gets bramble, jump on a nearby minion instead of on top of him, and do the same W + W combo”
Alan234 says “Go Phase rush.
With phase rush he cant do much. Poke him a ton. If he cses with e he wont be useful later on. Q him when he goes for q to deny him stacks. Prock your phase rush a bit after he uses w because his w duration is longer than your phase rush.”
RooLLy says “This champion can be a problem for Udyr. Since he will stack for days, his gonna q you forever. Good thing you play with movespeed soo his slow won't affect you a lot. ”
The_Unf0rgiv3n says “Nasus is an easy lane, but if you wanna kill him, you have to zone him from stacking. Otherwise after the 15 min. mark, he could become a problem for you to deal with.”
TheHellKing says “He is not much of a threat early game so you can try and harass him as much as you can but when he started to get some of those stack going you better watch out. One Q *bonk* and your hp is gone.”
Quinncidence says “Immobile!
Bonk vs Bonk, Yorick is much stronger early.
Nasus also has no dash so he is really vulnerable to ganks with the wall setup.
If Nasus manages to safely farm up and stack his Q he will be hard to deal with late.”
The Rock Titan says “"[Grasp, Corrupting Potion, W > Q] - If he's just farming Q stacks, he's easy, just farm Grasp off him literally starting lvl1, Starting W or E is really good.
- Take Demolish and just destory his plates!
- Do not fall behind in farm! Don't just worrying about getting Grasp procs also keep your farm up!
- If he's gonna go ap and max E..., well you're in trouble. He's suddenly unfavored..., but if he does this, he won't have a good rest of his game. Your team will have a easy time killing him later.
- Once he gets his first sheen item however... You have beeeeen outscaleddd!!! But again... lane phase would probably be over by then.
- Since you're the aggressor, watch out for jungle ganks. If you die to jungle ganks, it would have an adverse affect on your lane. You definitely do not want a Nasus snowballing during lane phase...
- Get bramble vest to actually be able to kill him before he outscales you"”
DippyDan says “A good Nasus will play as safe as possible in this matchup and avoid taking damage as much as possible. Will be giving up a lot of cs early, but will comeback stronger level 6. TIPS: [1] Start cull and farm as much as possible while zoning. [2] Freeze if possible while zoning pre-level 6. [3] Buy executioners once he scales. ”
Justkb says “One of the easiest Darius lanes. you bully him so hard that all you need to be careful of is constantly getting ganked. If you are a level up, on him and have over 50% more hp don't be afraid to attempt the 2v1!”
Fan22 says “Nasus is an easy lane, but his late game its better and he can ignore your CC if he is feed enough.
In Early game you should harrass nasus and deny all his farm, and dont forget to freeze the lane as much as you can.
The problem its that if he gets around 200 or 300 stacks orif ahead he snowballs really hard and you cant stop him easily becaause of how tanky he is and beacuse Nasus doesnt need much damage items, wich lets him go Tank items and 1v5, to prevent this abuse him in the Early game and get help from your jungler since Maokai sets ganks super easy.
Late game peel your teammates from nasus and CC him.
Remember that even if you set him super behind he can comeback any minute, so get all the gold and XP, and objetive advantague that you can.”
LoLReal says “Minor threat ASSUMING WE PUNISH EARLY. If you mess up in this lane it becomes unwinnable. Keep him on his feet and punish him when he goes to CS. You have to set Nasus behind early (and you should, we trade into him very well) and use our mid game to carry. If you die once, he'll build armor, and you will not be able to do anything.
If it goes late good luck.”
Rhoku says “Nasus is difficult in the sense that he is weak early but can snowball VERY fast if he gets his stacks going and if he kills you with his R. Generally speaking though, you don't scale that badly either. Bully him, don't let him stack and keep killing him. Try to freeze the lane instead of shoving it nonstop as this is the sure way of stopping him from csing. He can NOT beat you, even at level 6 unless you were afk and let him just stack until infinity. Rylai's Lyandries are all good. Tabis are nice as well. You might have to do a bit of kiting later on into the game as his PURE dps in his ultimate with his reduced Q CDR might be more than you can handle. But overall, he doesn't stand a chance. A good trick is to Ult him AFTER he uses his own ultimate. He HAS to use ultimate to do anything into you, as without ults, you win straight up.”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you in terms of his Siphoning Strike regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via your abilities. You will either have to freeze your lane roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: None, Opt for Cooldown Reduction) (Outscaling Edge: Even) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Malphite Early, Even Mid Game, Nasus Late Game)”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via Infected Bonesaw. You will either have to freeze your lane or roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: None besides Swiftness or Mercury's Treads) (Outscaling Edge: Even) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Dr.Mundo Early, Even Mid/Late Game)”
YasTilt says “Don't let him farm, Zone him out of the Farm and try to take small trades before Level 6. Take Anti-Heal to reduce the Heal from his Passive. He OutScales you though, so be careful.”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you in terms of his Siphoning Strike regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via Primal Howl. You will either have to freeze your lane roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: Blade of The Ruined King, Boots of Swiftness or Mercury's Treads) (Outscaling Edge: Even) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Warwick Early, Even Mid Game, Nasus Late Game)”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via Pillar of Ice. You will either have to freeze your lane or roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: None besides Swiftness or Mercury's Treads) (Outscaling Edge: Even) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Trundle Early, Even Mid/Late Game)”
Amvill says “DO NOT PROXY AGAINST HIM. He will get free stacks if you do and will likely out sustain you if he has enough mana. And oh god his slow, be sure to build slow resist and tenacity. Phase rush is a good rune to run against him.”
Fan22 says “Nasus can be quite easy early game, since Chos sustain can match nasus sustain, and with ignite and your ultimate you can actually kill him easily.
However Nasus can be really dangerous once he hits 6, and in the late game or if he gets ahead.
If you farm and zone him out of his minions, and help your team, you should be fine.
ALways try to get as much of an advantague as possible when nasus it's in the enemy team, and close the game asap, the most important thing it's to get objectives, since nasus in the mid-late game will still stay top farming and splitpushing, if he does this, punish him by getting objectives or helping your team.”
RhinoStar says “He is also a scaling toplane, which makes it very hard. You should try to stomp him in early game and get a good lead before he stacks an insane amount. Build bramble vest so it reduces the amount of lifesteal he gets.”
MythicMike says “Can't do anything against you and will most likely try to get as much farm as possible. harass him as much as you can in the early game.”
SavagePridestalker says “The early game will be super easy, because it's Nasus, but since you are tank, you'll have trouble killing him. You being tank will only allow him to get more and more stacks and eventually take over the game.”
Phrxshn says “This champion will outscale you regardless if you stomp or lose to him. In team fight peel off Nasus via Facebreaker or The Show Stopper. You will either have to freeze your lane or roam one of your choices here. (Recommended Items: None besides Swiftness or Mercury's Treads) (Outscaling Edge: Even) (Sustained 1v1 Trades: Sett Early, Nasus Mid/Late Game)”
Farmer Cleetus says “Don't let him farm his Q, if it's too high he'll become an extreme threat. So punish him so he'll call out for assist in a spam way.”
qosmox says “Nasus is the single a weakest top lane matchup early few levels. Combined with how strong shen is early on you shouldn’t let him take ANY cs for free. Position your blade up the lane constantly while dragging it through him and trade every time he goes for a last hit. He should be forced to last hit only with his E if you play it correctly. Try to get a freeze going if possible, but if you end up pushing (which it will often do if you force trades) then it’s possible to use the “Towercrash exploit” very effectively against nasus to poke him down under tower while not taking much dmg back.”
fishybearo says “This matchup requires early aggression, and just like Aatrox I recommend rushing Bramble or Executioner based on the enemy JG. Shove waves in and force Nasus to farm under the turret, then reset the wave to slow push towards you and kill him with full fury. If you can't kill the Nasus because he plays very safe then your main objective is to deny as much gold for Nasus as you can while earning as much as you can for yourself. No matter how well you play Nasus will be able to beat you later once he has enough stacks, so you have to take advantage of his weakness early.”
thefeedski says “You can win early and stop him from getting stacks with your blind - but eventually he'll become to massive to handle. Needs to be shut down early. ”
Gospodin Bure says “This guy cant kill you in lane, although with the recent buffs you might want to keep your distance when mid game rolls around as he can 100 to 0 you pretty quickly, dueling him later in the game is only suggested for the more skillful and ballsy players. In lane he can outsustain your Q poke if youre not persistent enough so get your jungler to help kill him around lvl 3 when you hit a barrel combo.”
KarmaChamelion says “While Sunderer and his Q will pack a punch. You're immune to his wither's slow with passive up and you have plenty of CC to lock him down with JG help. Rush bramble to cripple his healing.”
SanLourdes says “Nasus isn't too much of a threat. You have the advantage in the early game. Freeze the wave in front of your tower always so that he has to walk out in order to stack his Q. This will make him extremely vulnerable to ganks. Use your Q to zone off his CS and make it hard for him to stack his Q. Without it he is pretty much helpless against you. The only threat he has is his ultimate, so watch out for it. During the late game he can be a threat but only if you allow him to stack his Q and scale. He has no way to dodge your ult.”
Marwaii says “Hard push to deny CS. Poke when he last hits and kill him with lvl 6. He shouldn't be able to scale if you keep on pushing in and denying him CS so you'll eventually win. Nasus players are also incapable of playing the game so they'll ask their jungler to perma gank you. Ensure that you have several wards and ask your other laners to place control wards and normal wards in the river.
Take Divine + Mercs and Unflinching.”
LegitLechner says “I find this matchup rough. Nasus stacks off your tentacles with auto+q. And you cant really beat him until 3. try to have as much prio as possible while maintaining river vision. Nasus can solo kill at 6 if allowed to free farm with ult. Comes down to skill matchup imo.”
Iczere says “This is a skill matchup more than anything. If you're smart you can freeze wave and deny him cs. if he is smart, he'll try to make you push wave for cs and set you up for ganks early game. Overall pretty even.”
OnslaughtOfPwnys says “Go 100% aggro on him. Beat him to death till 6lvl. Then Run cuz it is his time to shine on you.
"Nasus, is your wisdom enough to know your fate? I am your death!"”
a1a7s45 says “Nasus has to farm early game so punish him for going up to you with a Mega combo. If you don't let him CS, he can't become the late game juggernaut that he is. Go Grasp or Phase Rush with anti tank items”
MachDawn says “Nasus CAN BE a major THREAT. If you let him farm and shove into him you will endanger the game if you are not careful which most people will do. If you are not careful you can lose game by feeding him stacks.”
oogoogerson says “Nasus is a bad champion. Zone him from CS and take ignite to bully him. If you don't punish him for locking in Nasus you lose to him mid to lane game.”
apkibum says “Nasus is annoying, he does a ton of damage and heals back way more than you can. He has slows and an area of affect ability, be VERY careful when fighting him and watch out for ganks. Just stay back and poke him down. ”
Lost Chapter says “This guy must have a death wish. Just fight him and trade him at all times never let him farm. If he farms he will come back with 600 stacks and make your game hell.”
Ganii7 says “Try to poke him with the q and e before is too late, with the sheen you can try to trade but only after he uses his q on a minion or when he goes on for the canon. The w helps you get distance or endure his w a litle beter. If he reeach late stacks levels is very dificult kill him and aproaching without caution may leed to death by stacks.”
CFCryo says “Nasus W shuts down your primary damage method, so to try and "stop him", you can try big ad and a Box combo (Hook into Box) to burst him... But Level 6 and onwards, alongside Armor/Magic resist, he becomes impossible to kill for Thresh alone. However, lategame, Thresh has the means to peel Nasus of off anyone.”
Bombabo says “As long as you play aggressive and watch out for jungle pressure, you will make him a non-factor. Just remember to apply pressure to him at all phases of the game. DO NOT PUSH THE WAVE IN. Doing so will allow him to safely farm under tower and greatly opens your susceptibility to getting ganked.”
Wawza says “Just poke him while he goes in for minions, he cant trade with you effectively untill he gets his ultimate at which point you should already have the lead on gold. Deny him as much cs as you can and push in your wave when he back to make him lose more since he is so reliant on stacking with his Q this will shut him down untill late game.”
DarkyTheReal says “Same as Kayle, push wave to bounce and freeze it, you NEED to kill Nasus before 6,If you don't, you will lose lane and maybe the game. Get Executioner's calling.”
SethPRG says “Bully him levels 1-3 and try to get First Blood. Afterward, regardless of whether you got First Blood or not, freeze in front of your tower if you can, or deny him as many stacks as possible. Roaming is not a great thing you will want to be doing here, Nasus will scale super well off of stacking minions with his Q, match wherever he goes as best you can, and avoid getting the first tower as he will be able to pull the first long freeze. When you fight him early it doesn't really matter what you do, just E him before he completely gets away and you should win the trade. Past level 6, it becomes harder, but as long as you stall out his Qs on you with your E, R, and just by walking between AA, you should still win, especially if you were already ahead in kills and/or CS. Build Trinity Force to bully him, or Divine Sunderer if he's armor stacking. In team fights he will most likely wither your carry and then try to run them down. Do your best to peel Nasus off of them, and do not let him dive your backline. Ulting him onto his enemy team during his ult is the most ideal thing to do in this situation. Take Unflinching if you are going Resolve Secondary, get an early Bramble Vest or Executioner's Calling, and build Death's Dance 2nd or 3rd item.”
AlanVenator says “Nasus isn't a threat to anyone during laning phase. Against Nasus you have to be as annoying as possible and not let him stack his Q. Do not let him freeze the lane. I always buy executioner's calling on the first back. ”
XtheZ115 says “With the buffs given to Nasus early in season 9, he has went from a minor threat to a massive nuisance. Wither has always sucked for Singed, but coupled with how much stronger Nasus is, you no longer can just run away from him. Debate banning him, and DO NOT proxy farm him, since he will become much stronger than you much quicker. ”
Lupus_ToplaneMain says “A lot of people wil disagree with me, but i think Nasus is broken. Try to avoid him. I cant give you tips, just dont let him farm!!!!! AND DONT FIGHT HIM IN HIS ULT. Bait it. To beat him you need to zone him and try not to push. This means ONLY lasthit and you will have to lose a few minions, but if you push a big wave in his tower, all your zoning is useless.”
Breadcrumbs says “Try to bully Nasus early by freezing under your tower (keeping 4 minions up) and deny him CS as well as poke him, it's not easy. With this being said, Nasus is practically impossible to keep out of the game, if you roam for a few minutes he will have gained 40-80 stacks and will out-trade you.”
Sporkintahn says “You win hard against Nasus early. ---Just walk up and force him out of lane as he cannot take any extended trades against you pre-6. --- The only problem is that he will eventually outscale and absolutely destroy you in the mid to late game. So if you want to win you need to absolutely demolish him and be as oppressive as possible early. --- Only problem is if you're extended in lane his jungler can gank you easily. --- If you can at any point freeze the lane on your side it will go a long way to getting you ahead. Some will look to max their AoE early to poke you down and clear waves so be mindful.”
SpartanDumpster says “While Gnar matches up generally well against Nasus, he can be fairly difficult because it can be tough killing him early but you don't want to let him farm CS. A Nasus with a good CS is a dangerous Nasus.”
El Leon Gnar says “Nasus will start to outscale if you allow him to stack, so abuse him in lane early and you should be fine. Save E for when he tries to wither you and go in, and just constantly harrass him with your Q and W procs.”
joelspaho121 says “Darius favored matchup.d blade start with sorcery tree.the only thing to keep in mind here is that you want to respect his level 6 and onward especially if lane goes even.if he has sheen a couple of stacks and tabis he can pop ult and run you down with w so your best choice is to freeze to drain his mana and deny him stacks.Play as aggressively as you can before he hits 6. Proxying waves after you kill him 2 times is a great idea to make yourself even stronger.
he heavily outscales you so try to close out games asap because it will get harder the longer it goes.”
wDesired says “Try to Deny him CS in the early game get Grevious wounds early
Try to group up and end the game fast as he outscales you no matter what”
Xarmat says “This is a special encounter but possible. Punish him for farming and get the items recommended on the top of this guide. At the end, you will be fast enough to kite him. Your E + Galeforce will drag you out of the melee combat and 50% tenacity will cancel his mayor slow fast.”
Humitaxx says “since you will be mostly splitpushing you will get stuck with this guy, he will either have you under his turret, or fighting you when he has enough stacks”
Helix128 says “dont. let. him. farm.
play super aggresive poke the early game, try to freeze lane and deny all of the cs you can, if not, he will bonk you out of existence.
your q blocks his q so if he has stacks and he withers you blind him to have more time to run.
avoid leaving your turrets alone otherwise he will splitpush.”
Kaizin says “Pressure Nasus early as you have higher base damage and even with his sustain you can punish him. I usually take Press The Attack against Nasus to further punish him during laning phase. Bramble rush is really good against Nasus as his passive grants him lifesteal. At level 6 you can generally beat him with an all in as long as he's under 70% health. Once he finishes Divine Sunderer, you need to be very careful in 1v1's. During his Ult his Q cooldown is halved and that means more Divine Sunderer spellblade hits.”
tonisco82 says “Become difficult to all-in once he gets W. If it is AP Nasus, make sure you get the push on him and poke until he is forced out. Try to all in early.”
I am so chill says “He cant stack against you.You have really strong early game.Freeze lane and punish him if he comes to get stack.You can take executioner but if things went bad you can go bramble vest.”
UlisesFRN says “Nasus, like all the farmlane champs, likes to play passive. Garen is not very strong until lvl 6 but in matchups like these, you can abuse your Q+E trade combo in order to punish him when he wants to lasthit a minion. Zoning Nasus in early is key in order to delay as much as possible his late game 1000 stacks Q. Try to freeze lane near your tower and trade him every time your skills are avaible.”
deathwalker7119 says “Nasus will always be a late game menace. You are able to take divine sunderer and BORK if you want into him to try and burst his huge hp bar. You should look to bully and freeze on him in lane. Parry his first q but don't let him bait you into it. RESPECT him, do not think that just because he scales really well that he is bad early game. He is weaker early game, but is definitely capable of a a solo kill with wither/ult and running at you with Q.”
PK Noob says “Stay out of his E area and you should be fine against him. His E will reduce your armor which will really give him a chance to hurt you. As long as your out of it, you'll win the battle and your able to heal half of his Q damage with your Q.”
Humitaxx says “It's known what you must do against a Nasus, just try and avoid him getting any farm, even if it means just freezing the wave under your turret, warding the bushes and then you can easily kill him level 2 by trading him, since you will always outdamage him IF HE DOESN'T GET TO STACK HIS Q”
UlisesFRN says “Your dear brother is a very tricky matchup. You abuse him really hard from levels 2 to 6, but once he has Ult and gets Sheen, you cant fight him anymore. If you managed to deny enough minions to him, you can try and all-in him once you got Botrk. If you kill him here, you are fine,but if you cant,then its too late for you to handle this dude. ”
Excuruseh says “Very easy matchup for you. Your passive gives armor which blocks a lot of his Q damage. Look to get bramble on one of your early backs, although it isn't too bad until he is 6.”
Womsky says “Scaling/mixed set up, whenever someone picks my trynda l pick the dawg, l consider him a counter, yes you beat him early, but he is the dawg and he scales like the dawg, once he gets a shen plus tabies, you gotta respect him, cause if you keep doing bad trades into him he will beat your ass, the good thing you have is he is fat and slow and can be bullied early the best way to kill a nasus in lane is by wave management which you should know very well as a toplaner, plus you can disengage from him easily by spinning over walls, mid to late game, if you didnt shut him down hard, he screw u over in a 1v1, so just shove him and steal camps plus look for kills on his team, getting a merc or tabies is nice so u can deal better with him”
Vandenelis says “you beat him in a 1v1 early. try to not let him farm minions for free since he gets more damage the more things he kills with his q. If you let him hit minions for free then don't trade against him since he has a lot of lifesteal from level 1”
RealIreliaCarriesU says “Quite an easy lane, granted you don’t ever fall behind. Start Q and look to build passive and fight early on. He is fairly easy to kill until he is level 6 so be aggressive and look for a kill. After 6 I recommend using your auto range to get 2-3 free auto attacks with passive before all inning. He is pretty easy to beat until he gets a sheen and a decent amount of stacks however if you get ahead of him it is pretty easy to keep fighting him until he gets 2-3 items. Use minions to kite out wither and use your W on his Q if you can and you will be alright. He is also fairly easy to gank so if you have the wave pushing to you, freeze it and force him to over extend”
The Real Fake says “Although Nasus's laning phase is horrible, his wither negates any chance of you killing him. You can shove him in, but the he can just stack safely under tower. You can try to freeze wave so he has to overextend, then you can kill him easily with your jungler. However in doing so you often won't have lane priority and won't be in to respond as quickly to jungle skirmishes. He is stonger than you mid to late game so never fight him once laning phase ends. You have more pick potential than him later, but he out damages you. Try to peel him off you backline in later fights, or if you have a good peel support you can just dive for backline instead.”
tibs2 says “Bramble rush. Look to freeze. The key to shutting down nasus is not to perma fight him and hope to kill him it is instead to freeze under you tower and deny him loads of cs/xp. An easy way to set up a freeze early game is simply to slow push wave 1-2 and then on wave 3 spam auto and q on the wave to get it in. If done correctly a massive wave will be under his tower and soon enough with push back to you. After that if he ever dares to walk up and cs just q and spam auto him as much as you can while maintaining your freeze. If he ever r and you cant kill him just r him away. ”
shinsuky says “Always, guys are thinking teemo hard counter nasus, BUT, Fake news... Teemo is good in harrassing but against a nasus who knows how to play, you wont poke him because of the range of his E and the slow of his W is SO dangerous with teemo, the speed is your only escape, and he can also perma exausting you. try to poke and farm only, make him losing creeps with your Q, lvl 6 he would be able to beat you in 1v1. try to call your jungler for some help before he stacks.”
Warwick do Brasilzaun says “O Late Game dele, é perigoso, ele cura bastante também, aguenta muito Dano, e ainda causa muito Dano, isso no Late Game, logico que você pode mudar isso com alguns Itens, e o no Early Game e Mid Game você tem grandes chances.
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svjade says “Also lots of health, cc, and overall is really annoying. Make sure you have very high damage so that Akali can stand a chance of defeating him.”
JeanMichelBambi says “Nasus can outscale you at most stages of the game, getting an early gank wont solve much of the issue, you should abuse the fact he can't fight back if you poke him in lane.”
Pupupipiru says “If you cant kill him super early, he will destroy you the rest of the game, never let up pressure, poke with Q and E, and don't try to tower dive after 6, unless you are super ahead.”
CertifiedTrundle says “he's a tank
He's imobile
He dosent have a stun or croud control
Problem is he has a OP slow
Deny as many stacks as posible
1v1 him when he comes towards your turr use your piller to block him ”
AmericanNut says “Early game is weak for him, keep him out of XP range, and completely bully him. Freeze lane under your tower as much as you can. But beware, he can outscale EASILY if left uncheck. He is a permanent split push presence, so always be ready to address him. Level 6 he can win EASY if you don't level up your E cool down.”
Cayteer says “At early game , he can't do anything to you. Try to freeze the minions under your tower so he has to walk up to minions. You can call your jungler to abuse his early game.”
Noodles912 says “Can be 1 or 5. 1 because he is super weak early, 5 because he can build visage and get free stacks. Get jg to gank, and hope he does not run you down.”
ThiccCheese1066 says “YOU. NEED. TO. STEAMROLL
Nasus is Nasus and if the Nasus is smart he will keep pushing your lane and get stacks unless you're there. But if your team is losing they need you in teamfights, which will give Nasus stacks, which only lead to you losing lane. Be aggressive at just about all time. Pull him out of tower and Q then back off, W when he ults and charges at you, E him away, and just ensure you get him low than ult.”
Fra660 says “nasus has a very weak early and you will be able to kill him quite easily, the problem with this champ is that he has one of the highest scaling in the game, so it doesn't matter if it's 0/10, in mid / late he will still be able to kill you”
kohyss says “I place him in even, because if you get ganged early and he will kill you, he snowballs super hard. Play aggresive and maybe start with dorans ring. Take second wind in case he will max E. rush bramble+damage.”
PiscesPomf says “HARD LANE
Nasus will try to freeze the lane, don't let him do that !
Nasus will just farm and get stacks, so you should try to make him back : Try to poke him with your Q, hitting vitals, and parry when he uses W/E/Q. You should roam when you can't farm as you can't do a lot of things if he is farming. ”
TheShadowCotoco says “🇧🇷: NASUS É UM CAMPEÃO MUITO CHATO, NÃO DEIXE ELE CRESCER, NÃO FAÇA PROXY, NÃO LUTE COM ELE DEPOIS DO LEVEL 6, VOCÊ SÓ PODE LUTAR COM ELE DEPOIS QUE FECHAR CORTA CURA E 2 ITENS.
🇺🇸: NASUS IS A VERY BORING CHAMPION, DON'T LET IT GROW, DON'T PROXY, DON'T FIGHT WITH HIM AFTER LEVEL 6, YOU CAN ONLY FIGHT WITH HIM AFTER CLOSING THORNMAIL AND 2 ITEMS.”
jmp_01_ says “Insane scaling champ. Make sure to deny farm as much as possible. Always play aggressive against him to make sure he can't do anything.
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AyeJa3 says “Poke, Poke, Poke. Don't let him farm and get stacks, freeze wave as much as possible and ward him away. Don't fight him in his ult. Reposte his Q or W depending on if you can predict the W.”
Kokob5 says “Nasus good or bad will always benefit if you shove him in, Freeze the lane in front of your tower and abuse him when he goes in for CS. Try not to Q the wave to hit him as it'll cause it to start shoving towards him. You need to respect his level 6 with sheen because if you don't he'll clap you in ult. If you need to go Phase rush to bait out his ult.”
negoZoma69 says “Most of the time you won't be able to stop Nasus from scaling, so swiftness boots + phase rush are godsent in this matchup. Try your best to harass him, but once he gets sheen you can't kill him anymore unless very ahead.”
Draconic56 says “Nasus is an easy early game but will DESTROY you late game. Try to freeze the wave near your tower and negate as many stacks from him as possible. If he gets 300+ stacks he will kill you. Once you hit level 6 start bullying him. Pull him In and wait for him to ult first before you do so you gain some of his ult stats. If you land your Q's and he doesn't have enough stacks you will kill him. Save your E for when he slows you with his W so you can pull him in so he doesn't escape.”
not normal says “His wither cripples your entire operation, since in the end of it you're basically rooted. Past level 6 he will have enough lifesteal in his passive to just ignore you and keep farming.”
Docoda says “As with a couple of other champs, Nasus is easy to poke down and zone early, but once he gets a good amount of Q stacks and some items without you getting a substantial lead, he can easily W you and cripple you in a fight. Putting some early extra points in E could help.”
SleeplessX says “If your jungler plays around top, you have a good window to ruin his lane by freezing or diving while you're still stronger than him, but solo, he actually stat checks you fairly quickly”
Lost Robot says “The biggest mistake you can make when playing against Nasus is playing safe. You need to play very aggressively at levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, or until laning phase is over.
Don't let him farm. You can poke him to death with Q and destroy him in every all-in if you play well and deny enough farm.
He'll heavily outscale you later on, so try to end the game early.
If he goes for AP Nasus and maxes Wither, you're screwed. ”
Dorom says “I'm not sure why but I always lose to Nasus as Gangplank. Since Gangplank's early game punish isn't that strong without sheen, his lifesteal is just too much to manage. You can't kill him early unless he just goes in like a mad dog and you will die once he gets 100 stacks and sheen. Play smart, maybe take ignite.”
kduudsz says “Matchup mais dificil que já joguei ate agora early game vc sola ele, quando ele fechar ruptor ele vai te machucar mas depois vc toma a liderança novamente. Recomendo conqueror para se garantir late mas pode usar pta para solar nivel 1”
BigMacavelli says “Nasus presents a problem to you in lane as you have nearly zero kill pressure since he heals all the chip damage you do to him. I would recommend rushing grievous, minimizing his healing makes the lane much easier.”
SanLourdes says “Nasus can completely out-trade you midgame. Once he has unlocked his ultimate, his lifesteal is insane. When you duel with Jax you will be standing mostly in one place. Nasus has a lot of CC that he can place to make your duel much harder, and don't even try retreating, he can easily slow you and finish you off. It is best to take advantage of his weakness early-game.”
SpartanDumpster says “Your W doesn't cleanse his Wither, and it's not something you can predict to block with it either. He can be a pain if he's allowed to scale, but there is potential to abuse his weaker early game.”
LaZyM says “Bullying him off of cs is difficult. This matchup may require at least one gank to be considered winnable. However going even is still very possible with good TP usage.”
gladiatorrr4 says “Take Phaserush against Nasus. It will help you a lot for short trades and poke. You can even get away when he Slows you. Procc Phaserush if you are slowed.”
raede says “You have all the tools the destroy a Nasus but if you get ganked a lot or he gets to free farm it gets a lot harder. Try not to shove early, maybe even miss a few minions but make sure he doesn't get ANY stacks on his Q. DIE BEFORE HE GETS TO Q THE CANNON.”
jpaul2077 says “Punish. Nasus. Early. It's inevitable that Nasus will outscale due to the nature of his kit. However, Nasus is very vulnerable early game. Q everytime he tries to stack a minion, don't push too far up without vision as his W is crippling when you want to escape a potential gank.”
KingNklaus says “Due to Mordekaiser nerfs over time and Nasus buffs plus general weakness of Mordekaiser early game i have decided to move is threat level higher you cannot bully him enough to keep him down due to his passive if you can get a freeze under your turret then you win since you can zone him out but a good Nasus will not let that happen”
Runtley says “Nasus is just annoying champion, he has slows he can make himself huge and do a thousand damage and yeah. You want to take the runes because they will make his slow non existent. You really just want to run away everytime he slows you then while its on cooldown go in and shoot him a couple times then run away again and repeat.”
ChaseMorePlz says “In order to beat Nasus, you need to prevent him from farming when you have the opportunity in lane. Proper ward coverage & map awareness is a good start to doing this. Stay up in levels and consider a Mortal Reminder! Roaming to kill his team is essential due to the fact that he will want to farm his Q and inevitably scale. Fortunately getting to late game with Nasus as Riven isn't bad when you buy items that scale. Experience helps a lot with this one so I recommend practice/VODs if you can't quite get it!”
ChaseMorePlz says “Can go either way, however is in Olaf's favor. If the Nasus sustains lane and gets Q stacks, the mid-game transition may be too much for Olaf to deal with. You're stronger than him early & late, so unless you screw up during lane phase, you can dominate as long as you can deal with his Wither. Stop D Gates, deny him farm!”
Lunarisen says “Like you, Susan here needs to farm; so deny farm with your Q as much as you can while still farming for yourself; and hope your team gets ahead so this dog becomes non-existent.”
Pawn Sacrifice says “Ok. Laning against Nasus it's just ridiculous to Urgot. You can pressure him like almost no other champion can. But, if you and your team just give the time and farm that Nasus needs, he will probably win the game.”
stygiandesolation says “You will need qss at some point or else he just gets away from you. You outscale with your crit build but he is better in teamfights. Something worth trying is phase rush to just bait his ult and run until it's over and punish him in lane more.”
Rime101 says “Build Proto > Morello > FULL DMG
Bully this man and take his turret pre 14 min by building up huge waves
If he hits you with W don’t be afraid, he might just be using it so he can safely farm cannon minion or something.
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Alekra says “Nasus is very weak in earlygame. You win trades early easily, but dont underestimate his lv 6. Use your Q to counter his W. Freeze your lane to deny him farm. Build antiheal (Thornmail, Chempunk Chainsword) if Nasus becomes a threat to weaken him in skirmishes. You should win teamfights against him as your ult executes him no matter how tanky he is.”
IkorasBadIdea says “If he's chasing you and has you with his W then your saving grace is your W. If he hits you, you will take a lot of damage from his Q. Your E won't give much movement speed so, is only good for reducing the massive damage you're going to take. Generally poke him down with your Q and don't be baited into chasing because he will turn that fight around with an R cast.”
czrmtz24 says “Don't fight Nasus past level 3. You will most likely win this lane, and the only way to win if your team doesn't end fast is to build towards utility. Take the same runes that you would against Darius (Phase Rush + Unflinching). You need Swifties and Bamis in this matchup. The only way you win late game is to keep him off your team. Rylais and Chemtank are recommended in order to slow him. DO NOT flip Nasus into your team, rather flip him away from your team.”
Arsneault says “Nasus normally builds tank but still outputs extreme damage with his Q. You can kill him early fairly easily. If they have summoner's spellbook be careful because they probably know what they're doing.”
GrGamingTeo says “NEVER push your minions under his tower, NEVER let him farm for free, after your recall for example, and ALWAYS freeze the lane, reset and freeze again. Nasus pre lv6 is garbage against a Darius. If you let him farm even a little, he will come back to lane with Sheen, Ionian Boots and once he activates his R he has like 100 armor and a ton of hp and you cannot kill him no matter what. So, before lv6, even if he dreams of getting farm you punish him with AA, W, AA etc. If he manages to kill you once or twice or if you allowed him to get farm for free the game is lost. Be carefull not to get to cocky and killed because you where too over-extended.”
Drumastermunch says “Build a large lead before 6.
Cleanse is really good here, Nasus whithout ult is free food with this build. If he ults you, cleanse his slow. Wait for ult end. Kill.
Don't ever let him alone, your goal through the entire game is to prevent him from playing.”
HoftheGreed says “Nasus no es un campeón que nos pueda dar muchos problemas (en especial si se rushea un Fajin para mitigar su W), el único detalle es tratar de controlarnos con el control de oleadas (Si, jugar Sett es muy divertido porque si se tiene tantita ventaja, se puede abusar del contrincante, pero esto puede ser un arma de doble filo) ya que podríamos ocasionar que Nasus stackee su Q sin problemas bajo su torre, por lo que nuestra principal prioridad será impedir eso.”
Hypnosa says “His stack is more powerful than yours. If you push the lane you'll probably die when ganked. Try to freeze the lane. Nasus players have huge IQ drop when cannon minion arrives, use this against them.”
Olaf Only says “You have to freeze the lane in this matchup to deny his lifesteal and Q farm.
Trading your ultimate for his is fine. Nasus is impossible to kill with his R active*
Your teamfighting is superior so try to just deny cs.
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LunaticDancer says “Easy lane, not only you can bully him from early on, it's exactly what you should be doing. It's a match up where you should never leave lane and let him bounce back, as long as he stays miserable, you deny their team a win condition. Don't let him stack on your summons for free though, when you initiate on him, make sure you can afford going all in and show him no mercy.”
lolkayleee says “SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILED MATCHUP INFORMATION
Take Conqueror. Start Q if he's bad. You can also start E if he's in hookshot range. Otherwise start W.
He outscales you super hard. Unless you kill him like 2 times or more in lane it's hard to snowball. A good Nasus will just sit around and get experience at the very least and outscale you late game. Try to stack waves and roam and maybe make plays with your jungler.”
SpyDaFX says “try to deny his stacking whenever you can (ESPECIALLY CANNOS), you can deny him by freezing or trading with ur W to prevent him from stacking cannons. build up fury and look for all in at level 2, if he has alot of stacks he will sh*t on you, you'll need to sit top most of the game. go conqueror”
Ravenborne says “Just cheese him early level 1 by starting W. Just stand infront of your lane and deny him stacks. He will not be able to fight you. If you do kill him you can probably start proxying the next wave and not allow him to get back into lane. Smart Nasus players will start E with Doran's Ring. If he does, do not let him poke you down to much or you are getting ganked by their Jungler for a free kill”
Kil4fun says “This guy hurts. If you start Oblivion orb you can poke him a lot, but you involuntarily push your wave. Farming under tower Nasus is bad. The alternative is he free farms and then just two hits you with Q. You're screwed. Seriously contemplate banning this guy. You should probably take phase rush to get away from his W slow. Swiftness boots if needed.”
MarkFromSingedMains says “TAKE PHASE RUSH!
If you proxy he will free stack, if you lane he will oppress you. His W is excellent at shutting you down in teamfights and his raid-boss status midway through the game is something Singed can't handle. The most you can do if Nasus gets ahead is goo fling and hope to kill the squishier enemies. Don't forget that his E shreds armour so most trades with Nasus are losing ones, on top of this his passive healing outscales your Corrupting Potion/Doran's Ring.”
wff010 says “Your are strong early game champion. He is weak early game champion. Just freeze for the first 20 minutes. He won't help his team in that time anyway. If he dares walk up, beat his ass. Try your best not to push and give free cs. If you do start slow pushing, try to punish him for walking up as much as possible and ask your jungler to set up a dive if he's low enough.”
Whobick says “Even trade if I were to say. You get early game, he gets late game. Prevent him from farming early by using Reckless Swing (E) every time he goes to last hit. Poke with Undertow (Q), and just watch out for that insta-slow. You can't 1v1 him after 10-15 minutes in, so just shut him down early and you should be fine!”
Razorwir3 says “i usually ban nasus as u have a hard time at stopping him from stacking if u endup against a nasus tho i recommand phase rush so u can get away from him when he used his e on u”
J0hnny Joestar says “You have to bully him, because if you don't he will become w threat late game. Your Q removes his W slow so use that to your advantage. i usually take phase rush into this matchup because it gives 75% slow resistance after it activates and that means you can now start trades with your Q”
ChevalierArlo says “Atrapalhe ele no farming e bote pressão no início pra evitar que ele escale mais do que você. Conquistador deve funcionar bem aqui.”
ModelitoTime says “Poke him as much as you can and try to freeze the wave towards the middle of the lane stay close to your wave and dont let him farm. Although you scale good nasus scales even better so do your best to prevent his scaling by not letting him farm, but dont shove the wave under his tower either.”
kingchas2 says “This is the only matchup I walk up and trade lvl 1. Walk try and proc PTA and get as many auto's off on him and then spam E on him every time it is off CD to keep him low. If he is smart as soon as he is 6 he will have 2 points in wither and just kill you. ”
Hippo Boi says “Similar to kayle, try abusing his weak early game, and after level 6 try not exposing yourself. If he doesn't have a lot of stacks will not be able to kill you alone. ”
LoLReal says “This lane is easy just make sure to punish Nasus early when he goes for CS. Also snowball the lane post 6 with R. If Nasus gets ahead this lane becomes a nightmare, like all Nasus lanes. Don't let it happen and it won't be a problem. Play aggressively.”
Dannala says “Most Nasus players will farm under tower and outsustain most poke you do. It's possible to wear him down if you got Corrupt Pot and Executioner's, however, his slow makes it near impossible to properly kill or escape him.”
aurus666lol says “Boom 3 stacks, Boom 3 stacks, Boom 3 stacks, Boom 3 stacks,Boom 3 stacks Boommmmmmmmmm 12 STACKS. Just destroy him in early, u are more powerful than him, if he gets back with Sheen, dont fight with him. Build Boots of Speed to make him less slowing you and go Phase Rush to chase him or do not get chased by him.”
Hyzerik says “Do not let him stack. Zone him off and freeze the wave, if he goes in to get cs do your combo. Once you got bork you should win. You should also wait out his R if he uses it.”
Grolow says “You can win lane easy but he will scale and win by splitpushing.
MY TIP: If you win lane big. Stay top and always stay top to set pressure no need to snowball.”
RedNBlue says “Nasus is just going to farm so if you just q him you will anger him very much when he tries to get stacks as you will blind him just before he uses his q.”
JannaMainOTP800K says “You can harrass him fairly easy just make sure as not to let him get close with his slow.
consider taking phase rush as rune and Ignite + ghost to keep him from getting his sweet sweet stacks
also build boots of swiftnes”
NoFriendsPlayLoL says “You can abuse his early game. Save ignite for his ult, rush steel plate boots and bramble. Look to all in him every time he tries to Q a minion. You can take him out of the game completely if you play the laning phase aggressively, but ward heavily as he can set up ganks against you.”
Raideru says “After a lot of buffs he can actually beat u in mid game so your goal is to prevent him from getting any stacks in early at lvl 1 if he tries to go for minions just run him down with e and get him low so he can't play the game, freeze the waves whenever u can and just perma zone him from stacks if possible.”
LeSocair says “Abuse Q on him and do not trade if you W is not up. Always W his W unless he doesn't go in, he will try to bait your W by using his W and not doing anything afterwards. His W has a lot lower CD than yours.”
sauronkaiser says “Originaly Yorick was a counter for this guy, but after all the nerfs he got in lane you no longer do. You should be able to easily survive laning phase and bully him a bit but you wont be able to kill a good nasus. After first item, DO NOT trade with him until you have sterak. Then you can 1v1 with no problems, including late game. Thornmail is highly recommended in late game to take down this doge. Cage him, use ult and watch him die even with 10000 stacks.”
RedNBlue says “Make sure to harass him and don't let him farm. If he gets too much farm it will be a problem. Make sure to be a level ahead at all times.”
AmericanNut says “Easy to beat early, but of course. You must keep him away from XP range from minions. His ult will be an issue in team fights, Devour him and he's useless.”
Ramixx says “Annoying champ. You can bully nasus out early with your E > W > Q combo. Remember use Q as the taunt ends so it actually hits. Make sure you do this pre6. Once nasus hits 100 stacks and lvl 6 his ability to 1v1 you becomes much higher”
EU_Toxicity says “Standart Q max Nasus is very easy to beat. Zone him from the wave early and look to all in him. As soon as he uses his W on you use W and E to keep him in melee range and you will win all fights before 6 100%. After 6 his dps will increase significantly but if you denied him Q stacks early on winning should still be easy.
If Nasus maxes his E and shoves waves, just farm it out and stay out of his R range to remain high health, you'll outscale him hard since he's not gonna get as many stacks with E max.”
bocchicken says “Bully the PISS out of him early, and get them SWIFTIE boots to negate his wither slow. Harass him every time he tries to go in for a stack, but respect his lvl 6 if you're pushed out too far without flash or E. ”
doorknobber69 says “What you wanna do is push first 2 waves and set a freeze so he can't walk up and get stacks. I like tp in this match up, but ignite gets the job done just as well. He will out scale you 1v1 wise around 25-30 minutes. ”
lordoftheyuumitopmidadc says “this is a champ that you should always ban or vanye because of his stacks nasus will just stack and win lane because its nasus and does nasus thing make sure your jg ganks your lane or try to poke and feeze wave at your tower”
KillMeMyFriend says “Don't let him farm and try finighing the game as early as possible and you will be fine. If you feel like he is going to stomp you then go phase rush with manaflow and celerity, your attack speed wont scale that much but you will have a much safer lane.”
iZeal says “Nasus will have a very hard time against Darius in the early game as it's almost impossible to fight back for him unless he gets ganks. Once he has Sheen and his ultimate however, you should be cautious about his damage output. Darius is able to kite it out however, especially if you happen to take Phase Rush and after waiting out his ult you just murder him.
DBlade, Tabis/Mercs/Swifties/Phage”
DasGrauen_ says “Dont let him stack. The first one who gets the kill won the lane. If you die to him you lost ur lane. If you kill him you won your lane. ”
DarkNavarre says “Punish him for trying to stack. When he withers just snare him and back off, then abuse wither's long early cooldown to force him to back off. He will only become a problem if you don't stay on top of punishing him and allow him to stack. Try and build an early lead to finish the game out before he gets too many stacks.”
NoxianBlood says “Threat depends of the Nasus type of player, if the Nasus Plays passive and farms to stack his Q, then the threat is major, but if he's playing for trades the threat is even, but overall if this champions get Fed he's going to be so tanky that will have the ability to tank your entire team and focusing turrets destroying them one-shotting them like crazy just focusing objectives consistently, making you force to focus him with a lot of players, so try to make Nasus get behind, otherwise with allot of stacks and tanky as a behemoth, he will laugh at your towers and inhibitors and at Nexus he will Taunt you and 3 shot the Nexus. so if you really think Nasus is a scary champion overall ban him, or try to kill him peeling your high damage carries. if they are ahead. otherwise, Rip and watch your base get annihilated. the reason why not extreme threat cause he can be stopped by killing all his teammates first, and leaving him alone to deal with. and he won't deal much damage to tanks, just remember not to fight him while standing in his E ability, that will reduce your armor making his Q deal more damage, fight him while his E is down.”
hahadead7777 says “Nasus early game you can easily beat him. If you get the advantage over him you must stick where he goes to prevent him from catching up. If you see him R then do not engage”
wtkr says “Impossible to beat, my go to ban every game. It doesn't matter how many times he dies to you, he will eventually farm and outscale you. Once Nasus rushes MR, he practically wins every trade and all in.”
byThiagus says “XD. No puede tocar un minion siempre extende peleas, segunda pagina de runas espada de doran, tene cuidado con su nivel 6 que es muy fuerte en 1v1. Trata de divearlo con tu jungler y hacerlo perder minions”
Stijnzxz says “Nasus is no match for u, u can run him down ez and play lane bully but be aware of hes stacks the higher the stackts the more testosterone he gets and then he figths u and u lost so dont give him free stacks an be aware of vision!”
NoodleFlafl says “It's harder to keep him from getting stacks when you have that weak early game as ap, so he might scale harder than you if you cant get your jungler to camp you.”
Boblet says “Woof boy over here will beat you after 30 minutes. Don't wait till then to win the game.
He can't even get close to hitting minions in lane though, so he'll be looking elsewhere for farm (your jungler).”
RocketD1no says “You need to bully Nasus as much as you can from levels 1-3. If you can stop him from getting as many last hits as you can, you will have a decent edge up on him once he gets his Ult.”
TristanofJugdral says “Your level 1 does well in this matchup but late game is a problem. Your ultimate gets hard countered from the lifesteal on his passive and I doubt you will escape alive thanks to his W. ”
TheSIanko says “You can easily poke him when he is farming minions. It's harder when he gets enough stacks to kill you. If he take ignite your heal on R will be useless”
AWierdShoe says “
Nasus is the single a weakest top lane match-up early few levels. Combined with how strong Shen is early on you shouldn’t let him take ANY CS for free. Position your blade up the lane constantly while dragging it through him and trade every time he goes for a last hit. He should be forced to last hit only with his E if you play it correctly. Do your best to get a freeze going if possible, but you'll most likely end up pushing him into his tower anyways. Just be aware of his W, which he can use to set up ganks.
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I Am Goliath says “You win against nasus early in lane until he gets stacked up, you want to bully him early as much as you can because he will be super focused on farming up his Q. Late game DO NOT fight him 1v1, tell your team to group and and force him to either join the fights or if he splits try to force all the t2's, you are more useful then him in teamfights but he is stronger. Overall try to end the game as early as you can or atleast get a big lead.”
I Am Goliath says “Nasus is a hard matchup because of how well he scales into late game and because he can sustain your poke. Either try to get your team really ahead by roaming a lot or have your jungler camp your lane because you do not want a nasus to get out of control, other then that he can't really kill you during lane and he will be focused on just getting cs.”
TrinityForceYasuo says “Most nasus players are greeding hard for the stacks on heir Q so when ever they come for a minion harass them as much as you can it will come to the point that they will be that low on hp and killable. Bait his E by going in for a ''trade'' and then go back with E on his minions. After its over his E you can trade freely. Try to avoid getting hit by his Q's as much as you can. Avoid staying in his W because it reduces your armor so he will deal more damage on you. When he ults run just run you dont want to fight him at that duration of time he gets more tanky his R does some magic damage to targets close to him and he gets his Q cd lowered, so just bait it by going into for a fake fight and when he uses it go back asap and stay in a safe distance until its over.”
Scoothare says “This is the same as kayle, don't let him scale. Shut him down early and ask for a few ganks. DON'T LET HIM FREEFARM! You're pretty good at denying his Q with your E though. So max E in this matchup.”
StrikeX114 says “Pretty much your standard bruiser, he remains a minimal threat for much of the early game. However, should he decide to build Trinity Force, you will be sorely outmatched. Be wary of this and know when to back down.”
Saarlichenbog says “Nasus is borderline a tiny threat because he doesn't actually have any lane agency of his own. But, his W is seen by the Kalista community as one of Kalista's biggest weaknesses because of how it messes up with her passive. This matchup really just boils down to not being caught out by his great gank setup through his W and outscaling later on, but you should be denying him from stacking at any time of the laning phase outside of ganks that will come with a Nasus vs Kalista lane. Tracking the enemy jungler is the requirement here.”
Captain Dantems says “Uma lane muito fácil, não deixe ele farmar. Grasp ou Clepto. Poção corrupta, cristal de safira com 3 poções de vida ou com refil.”
ItsPaulygon says “Not really a problem early game, try to negate his stacks early game. As once he reaches 6 and has a good amount of stacks and a few items, you won't be able to beat him. So tell your jungler to come gank top as much as possible to stop this ticking time bomb. Take Doran's Shield.”
TheMightyNinja says “Nasus is very weak early in the game, position your blade aggressively to deny him farm and try to freeze at your tower, if you can get ahead of him and keep denying him farm he cannot recover, if he ends up farming you should watchout for his late game. Your W can block his Q. If he ults try to stay away and waste his cooldown.”
Biko14CS says “Pretty much your standard bruiser, he remains a minimal threat for much of the early game. However, should he decide to build Trinity Force, you will be sorely outmatched. Be wary of this and know when to back down.”
GLP1 says “It may seem like a free match but never let it take loads or regret it for the rest of the game, try to freeze as much as possible whenever you can and try to tell the jg to dive it if you see that they have the opportunity to do so as Kled is very good for dives”
MrGasYourGirl says “Run Dark Harvest and Ignite to all in him ASAP. Lane against him and last hit to draw him out. You need 1 or 2 kills on him before 6 or you're in trouble.”
wolfclaw3812 says “If you don't keep Nasus off of the minion wave entirely, he will come back to kill you in three autos. If you don't have phase rush, Wither will turn you into easy prey. Phase rush. ”
Whackguy says “Nasus can be a fairly hard matchup if you go up against someone who knows what they are doing. Deny stacks in laning phase. Run him down after he wastes W.”
Nicklstherealone says “Bonk him away. He cant do anything till he hits 200 Stacks so deny his Farm but mostlikely his Canons and if he steps foward All-In him. ”
White Cr0w says “If you lose a matchup against a jungle Nasus you are doing something wrong. He has one of the slowest clears ingame, and since he need early damage to solve it he will be an squishy target without escape. steal all his camps and leave only an small creep so he can't farm Q (or farm anything at all).
As long as you get ahead earlygame, pressure all lanes, push (yes, I said push) and win ASAP so he can't try to farm lategame.”
jackss72 says “hard to take down early due to how tanky he is and outscales u a lot, jg diff matters here. buy exec. Seems you actually outscale him with 6 items, you will need grievous wounds, mercurial and navori. He only wins at 2k stacks if you have proper build”
NoHesitation7 says “A good Nasus will always have potential to make your matchup a farm lane & stack for free, which will force him to completely outscale you.”
Raphi0216 says “Perma engage him before 6 and zone him away from minon kills. If he uses Q to trade, it's a win. After 6, you can't trade with E because you need it to disengage if he ult's. If he's low enough, you can engage him with E and kill him even if he ult's.”
Randombeastmode says “Start Dblade
Slowpush first wave and hard push second and third wave so that you can be level 4 by the time the wave is in the middle again on your side, earlygame nasus can't stack that hard. They also tend to GREED for cannon stacks, if they do so take it as a all in opportunity, TIP DO NOT W when just getting on Nasus, walk a bit ahead of him and orb walk, once he w's it's safe to W him since you wont miss it so easily.
If Nasus gets sunderer, your life is over and you might as well FF for all the good that playing the game from then on will do you.
EASY THEN IMPOSSIBLE”
Frostyfps says “Quite an easy lane, granted you don’t ever fall behind. Start Q and look to build passive and fight early on. He is fairly easy to kill until he is level 6 so be aggressive and look for a kill. After 6 I recommend using your auto range to get 2-3 free auto attacks with passive before all inning. He is pretty easy to beat until he gets a sheen and a decent amount of stacks however if you get ahead of him it is pretty easy to keep fighting him until he gets 2-3 items. Use minions to kite out wither and use your W on his Q if you can and you will be alright. He is also fairly easy to gank so if you have the wave pushing to you, freeze it and force him to over extend”
Time1Save says “You can kill him 20 times, but if he takes 1-1. 5 items and a few stacks, you won't do anything else to him.This is not a joke, I played against nasus and he was 0 \ 20\4. Trinity Force was bought by him, tabi Ninja, and a Thorn vest with 300 stacks he humiliated me. I had botrk, Black Clever, mercures and the dance of death. But as long as you play with an advantage, you have to give your team an advantage as well .”
At0mikx458 says “Very strong when hit lvl.6 so try to fight him when he dont have ulti. Unstoppable in late because of his Q so win in maximum mid-late game.”
Colbasz says “This is a weird one. Nasus needs to be denied farm and harassed constantly, and he is one of the few champs who is actually weaker than Kayle in the early game. Harass him, poke him, deny him as much farm as you possibly can. Late game, dont try to fight him 1v1, its not gonna work.”
Mordekaiserrrrrrr says “Although Morde is good against Nasus early, if you don't kill Nasus a few times early on or don't get a huge advantage in XP and cs, he will scale and he will wreck you.”
MaelstromLegends says “One of your easiest matchups will be Nasus. As long as you play aggressively and prevent Nasus from farming and stacking, you will demolish him early, and he won't be a threat if you keep bullying him. ”
MisterDerpFace says “Don't let him farm the cannon minions. in fact, try to not let him farm AT ALL. His W doesnt affect your W, so thats pretty nice.
He is also my second ban option cuz i just dont like playing against him. he probably isnt worth banning.”
Penguinoverlord1 says “This matchup is a pretty easy win if you just keep him from getting any free cs, as Nasus is pretty weak early game just like Yorick. Use your E to apply pressure and keep up graves in order to threaten him if he ever trys to engage or get stacks for his Q. This match up can get out of control if you let him farm and get Q stacks so be sure to deny as much of his farm as possible.”
LoL destroyer says “Nasus is difficult to play against if they start playing defensive, if nasus gets to aggressive trying to build stacks on his Q, he can easily be punished. Pre 6 you can take him as long as he doesn't have many stacks.”
Liko888 says “The Nasus matchup is probably my least favorite matchup. You bully him till level 6. If Nasus knows the matchup, he will rush tabis and bramble and run you down with ghost and ult at level 6. You win the lane by bullying nasus, fending off his powerspikes (level 6 and level eleven) and getting to cleaver (you should rush it in this lane).”
YoungTact says “He out scales you so you are on a timer. Punish every cs he goes for with lane harass combo and rush bramble vest. If he starts splitting scaling after scaling match his split and clear wave with Q, Sunfire and Iceborn. Teleport when appropriate.”
qasddsa says “In lane, Nasus needs to be oppressed. Do not let him farm minions and keep him out of lane. Late game, if he has scaled hard enough, you cannot duel him 1v1 since Wither will shred your movement speed and attack speed. He needs to be focused down if he groups and goes for your backline.”
Tauricus2017 says “Nasus is like an air in early game but scales up rapidly. Pick Grasp of Undying because you can freely poke him without any strong penalty. Just be sure he has not very much stacks”
SkellyBirb says “You can poke him for a lot of damage and he can't chase you easily because of your charm. If he catches you with your charm and ultimate down though, he will deal a lot of damage.”
Afro D Legend says “He kinda deletes your movement speed by the press of a button, lol. Isn't too big of a problem as I've experienced so far, but it can be.”
Theknight31 says “Nasus have a bad early but its not easy to kill him. Dont let him farm push your lane and roam. Because he has a better late game you need to win the mid game and end the game fast dont let him take kill by roaming.”
SubHuman Filth says “Go Phase rush. Maybe even ghost if prefered.
You can absolutely destroy him early game. Blind him when he goes for stacks and always blind him when he wants to stack cannons.
Phase rush will help you run from him when he goes all in. Overall an easy lane if youre careful with jungle ganks.”
Grayified says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Nasus is VERY weak in the beginning of the game. Your ability to set up a snowball against him is what will determine your ability to split push against him in the mid-late game. Here is my general strategy against Nasus, Look to pressure hard level 1 and 2 with an extended trade, always start trades off with an auto attack when he goes up to farm a minion. Get level 2 advantage first. Get the second wave completely into turret before the third wave comes up so that the enemy minion wave can "bounce" towards you (aka push towards you.) Then only last hit at the last possible second while it pushes towards you, this makes it so you hold a freeze against him. Don't let the minion wave get too big or he will press E and hard shove the wave. Try to hit level 4 around the same time as nasus, once you are level 4 as long as you didnt take too much damage holding the position of the wave close to your turret you can look for an allin yourself OR you can set up easy ganks for your jungler. If you want, you can take tiamat to put a bunch of pressure onto nasus and you can choose to either hit nasus's turret for plates or take small auto attack + spin out trades (if you do it perfectly you don't take a turret shot.) Don't use your tiamat on the auto attack + spin out, instead after you spin out walk back in and press tiamat and damage him and walk out before you take turret aggro. Be looking to always set up ganks/dives for your jungler to easily take. In the mid-late game if you effectively shut down Nasus you can maintain pressure on him and/or rotate to flank his team while he tries to get back in the game. If you are behind in the mid-late game against him you need to look to use your superior mobility to make moves around him, but don't directly confront him 1v1 or he will drop D cane on you.”
Pyroen says “A fellow raidboss! Keep him small, try to zone him off from cannons especially! Early game, ask for a gank, get a small lead for yourself and freeze the lane so he can't approach and get stacks, when he comes near, punish him hard, he will likely be trying to just Q a minion.”
I Am Goliath says “You can punish him very hard and zone him off a lot of his stacks, nasus is a pretty easy lane for most champions because he is focused on csing with his Q so just deny him as much as possible, your w procs will add up a lot.”
Reason97 says “Even a fed nasus has no real way of getting to you if you play your CC right. He's scary, very scary, but a cool head and steady play will keep you safe, and even your teammates. lock him down and keep him cut off from his target's, and i guess you could say he's all bark and no bite (i'm sorry).”
Nabura says “Some people take phase rush for this matchup, but I have a secret setup that confuses the fuck outta every dog in the world. Merc treads + Legend: Tenacity will make his W run out before he reaches you. If his W comes back up no worries, it will just run out again before he can touch you. Landing Q will be easy as he has to run in a straight line towards you to do anything.”
EntxRecoil says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Nasus is VERY weak in the beginning of the game. Your ability to set up a snowball against him is what will determine your ability to split push against him in the mid-late game. Here is my general strategy against Nasus, Look to pressure hard level 1 and 2 with an extended trade, always start trades off with an auto attack when he goes up to farm a minion. Get level 2 advantage first. Get the second wave completely into turret before the third wave comes up so that the enemy minion wave can "bounce" towards you (aka push towards you.) Then only last hit at the last possible second while it pushes towards you, this makes it so you hold a freeze against him. Don't let the minion wave get too big or he will press E and hard shove the wave. Try to hit level 4 around the same time as nasus, once you are level 4 as long as you didnt take too much damage holding the position of the wave close to your turret you can look for an allin yourself OR you can set up easy ganks for your jungler. If you want, you can take tiamat to put a bunch of pressure onto nasus and you can choose to either hit nasus's turret for plates or take small auto attack + spin out trades (if you do it perfectly you don't take a turret shot.) Don't use your tiamat on the auto attack + spin out, instead after you spin out walk back in and press tiamat and damage him and walk out before you take turret aggro. Be looking to always set up ganks/dives for your jungler to easily take. In the mid-late game if you effectively shut down Nasus you can maintain pressure on him and/or rotate to flank his team while he tries to get back in the game. If you are behind in the mid-late game against him you need to look to use your superior mobility to make moves around him, but don't directly confront him 1v1 or he will drop D cane on you.”
HoldMySake says “He can be boring to play against because he plays under tower 99% of the time, but if you space him out with your Q's and don't walk into melee range, you should be good.”
Darrkescru says “Runa : impeto
Negar stack dele usando Seu Q e ficar pushando a wave pra fazer ele perder farm da torre se ele der o slow e tentar all in proca impeto e sai correndo”
Swaim says “Dont let him stack q and perma freeze lane and ward bushes so you know where jungler is. DONT get hammer rush a cleaver with because his ult will give him armor go this if you have a good lead (gold lead ofc) if not then go normal build and mercs (go tabi unless enemy mid is ad too )
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Riliane says “You can SHIT on him early. Level 2 and you're ready for a gank cause he will get super low. Get your jg to get an early gank. Mid game you can heal the damage he does, as long as he's not healing you.”
Aas112mm says “Nope, there is no way in a thousand years you would win against him, you might get some early lead and som kills in the beginning but thats all. As soon as he hits 200 stacks you are pretty much hopeless.”
ZergDood says “This guy wants to Q minions the whole match. Do your best to harass him and make him lose CS. You're against time in this matchup, so try to get him killed before he gets too powerful and outscales you. Remember, he has no mobility, so he's specially weak to ganks.”
qazx1427 says “You'd think that Nasus would be a threat, being able to farm off your ghouls, but he has the same issue as Sion: no mobility. He can get extra HP from his ult, sure, but all you have to do his get him in your W and throw a couple ghouls on him. An early Executioner's Calling helps a lot, and you can get to the point where if you even get him in your W, he'll burn his ult.”
9CH Leviathan says “there are 2 ways to play against nasus, with default set up you win all the first 15-20 minutes against nasus, you can denegate farm and kill him, in late game dont 1v1, you surely loose. The other is with Hyper Scale, yep hes going to have 200 charges minute ten, but even like that, you just outscale him so hard. Choose wisely what to do in every game.”
HIGH TEST TOP88 says “Horrible earlygame, freeze and kill him every time he comes up to farm, use and abuse him, build executioners or bramble.
Maybe take unflinching?
Take armor.”
Twist21 says “This matchup becomes harder and harder the longer the game goes.Even tho Nasus will get huge we won't be able to 1v1 him late no metter what so I would just go tiamat , shove and make plays around the map.”
Pikkachu Loiro says “It's not the biggest threat to you, but to your team as you can't stop most of his farming.
On this match up you have to make sure you poke him as much as you can and ask your jungle to gank the lane as soon as possible, as always, play safe, but be ready to all in him.
Rush Bramble Vest and be sure to be ready to kill him as you get level 6”
CulturalYokai says “the line phase will not be a problem at all, the thing is that its kind of hard to make him stop stacking so yeah he might become a problem in late game, u can still kill him he does not get u with his Q and one shot u tho.”
NotHumerus says “You're the downbringer of all living things, you don't lose or shouldn't. Just play safe if you're getting cheesed on. And stay away from your wack brother.”
xXkillercrackXx says “you destroy Nasus at all stages of the game. You have lane pressure permanently and can pressure him every time he tries to cs or stack. Build up a slow push and get your jungler to dive pre 6. Nasus will never be relevant after that.”
Dreadscythe95 says “You can't pressure him to stop his stacking and leave him behind but he also can't pressure you early. The problem is that Nasus comes online much faster than Kayle so he is usually favored in the matchup. If you reach late game though (lvl 16+) you will probably win. Still it depends a lot on the team drafts.”
Shumair says “You should always try to slow push vs Nasus. Freezing would be more beneficial but his E allows him to break freezes relatively easily. Force trades against him early on as they'll always be in your favor. If you're even at level 6, sheen and ~150 stacks he beats you in an all-in unless you took ignite and play perfectly. You should only ult after he does to steal extra stats. Build bramble.”
chloe666 says “Very easy match-up. Most melee top laners will be the ones trying to run you down, but against Nasus you want to RUN DOWN HIM. He can't trade back until way later into the game, so you should get an easy first blood or at least force him out of lane burning both of his sums. ”
Twist21 says “Weak early , make the 3rd wave push to you and then freeze him , when he uses most of his mana all in him and run him down the lane.If you dont maintain the freeze he will outscale you.”
LulzTVit says “Nasus is a Major Threat. He sustains easily against you and disengages you then scales up to be a 1v1 monster with a perma attack speed slow.”
wallobear53 says “Don’t let Nasus free-farm under any circumstance as he will scale into a monster if you allow him to do so. Even if you roam, make sure that you shove the wave into his tower and come back to the lane quickly.
Poking Nasus is very important so that he can’t just straight up all-in you once he hits level six. This will help you zone him off the wave and you may even be able to all-in him if he overextends for his stacks.
Nasus will try to not join team fights early on due to his Q stacking mechanism. You can use this to gain lane priority and then ask your Jungler to get the Rift Herald or any other Objective as you will have the lane priority.
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DankFlyingCow says “Fattest champ diff in the world. Kench absolutely shits on him. Play aggressively, and he will be helpless to do anything about it. Even when Nasus ults, it is totally possible to fight and kill him, due to how thoroughly you counter melee sustain damage champions.”
M.P.C says “Harassing him early so he can't get stacks is always a must. If he ults back away and use your E to poke and slow. If he uses Wither on you and you have your R up drop it on top of you and unleash every thing you have hoping you'll kill him before he kills you and also hope he builds AP and not Tank.”
Fiora Pogjet says “Nasus is always bad in the early game. You should try to pressure him hard and go for trades, so he can't farm for his Q stacks. His W tho is very good against you and hard to prarry, so you shouldn't overstay because then he can chase you down with his W and Ghost as well. At level 6 u can kill him but he has a good fight as well. You aim for killing Nasus in the early game so he can't beat you up later. But always care about him in late game.”
Venegis says “Who let the Dog's out dude, you need to poke him until he lows on health, and make sure to look at minimap while you pushing your lane.
Nasus + Jungle threat = Risk is doubles. Beg your jungle to outclass Nasus.”
NullPC says “Actual dog champ never beats you his bonus health dosent mean anything to your ult and needs you to stand still to hit his q's never lose this lane.”
Tranex says “Do NOT let him get stacks, you let him free-farm, you loose your game
try to bully him as much as you can and call you jungler, you must win game before jhe get stacks”
Kujis says “Very easy. Dont give him any farm for free, always punish him for taking cs.
When u get a lead, try to roam to other lanes because you have to end fast vs him.”
Stiwy says “You can bully him hard for the first minutes and even more harder when you get your ult.
If you play aggressive enough you can prevent him from getting stacks on his Q.
He scales well but with healing reduction and by ulting him you can still fight him (unless he has like 1000 stacks, then it's GG).
Remember that it is better to fight him outside the ring created by his E because it lowers your armor.”
Hypnosa says “his lifesteal prevents you winning the trades after some levels. You don't have much chance later so go all face to him and freeze the corridor if you can. Make your boot choice to counter his W”
Kingarthur720 says “Lethal Tempo Runes and Build. Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Nasus is VERY weak in the beginning of the game. Your ability to set up a snowball against him is what will determine your ability to split push against him in the mid-late game. Here is my general strategy against Nasus, Look to pressure hard level 1 and 2 with an extended trade, always start trades off with an auto attack when he goes up to farm a minion. Get level 2 advantage first. Get the second wave completely into turret before the third wave comes up so that the enemy minion wave can "bounce" towards you (aka push towards you.) Then only last hit at the last possible second while it pushes towards you, this makes it so you hold a freeze against him. Don't let the minion wave get too big or he will press E and hard shove the wave. Try to hit level 4 around the same time as nasus, once you are level 4 as long as you didnt take too much damage holding the position of the wave close to your turret you can look for an allin yourself OR you can set up easy ganks for your jungler. If you want, you can take tiamat to put a bunch of pressure onto nasus and you can choose to either hit nasus's turret for plates or take small auto attack + spin out trades (if you do it perfectly you don't take a turret shot.) Don't use your tiamat on the auto attack + spin out, instead after you spin out walk back in and press tiamat and damage him and walk out before you take turret aggro. Be looking to always set up ganks/dives for your jungler to easily take. In the mid-late game if you effectively shut down Nasus you can maintain pressure on him and/or rotate to flank his team while he tries to get back in the game. If you are behind in the mid-late game against him you need to look to use your superior mobility to make moves around him, but don't directly confront him 1v1 or he will drop D cane on you. ”
BloodyDream81 says “Nasus est basiquement un free match up pour Darius en phase de lane, et il faut en abusé, l'empêcher de farm en pratiquant le freeze pour le forcer à s'exposer, et si il avance trop le punir tout de suite, idéalement arriver à le tuer en début de partie t'aidera à retarder sa prise de puissance. Car même si il ne représente aucune menace pour toi en phase de lane, une fois la game avancée avec du temps il deviendra inarrêtable, il te faut donc profiter de ton avantage en début de partie pour prendre un gros avantage !
Astuce : Les bottes de mercures sont très efficace contre nasus car elle réduise le slow de son Z, et les dégâts magique de son E et de son R, à faire si la game le permet. ”
Gaisgeach says “Early Nasus: kick the crud out of him early : bully him: don't let him get a single cs. if he want to fight level one : take ignite plus q: you win. ”
Dantheman81 says “Nasus is the same as Renekton, however slightly easier. Nasus will most likely stay in lane the whole game until late, providing you with the opportunity to push out other lanes and take team objectives. IF you decide to fight him, make sure you wait until his ultimate goes down and save your wall until he slows you so you can escape.”
Twiggymocha says “He is extremely easy to lane vs because you just hold in q every time he goes for a minion. He is also very easy to poke.When he slows you, you slow him back.”
Fixst says “Try to keep him small in the Early Game and not to let him farm. Watch your map to avoid being ganked
Not much changes in the Mid Game. Just keep him away from farming.
In the Late Game you should not 1vs1 him. Try to catch and 1vs2 him”
ChocoChurro says “If you harass him from minute 2, you'll be able to fuck him up and deny him a whole lot of farm. Just don't let him scale, Lillia is pretty good against Nasus.”
Xplor says “You will have the best chance to kill Nasus and win the lane between levels 1-5 and 11-18. Between level 6 and level 11, as far as I've noticed playing against a dozen of Nasus, his ultimate transformation is stronger than your abilities and he can easily kill you. You will outscale his damage late game although he will farm his Q the whole game. Pre-6 you can also take him down easily. Poke him a lot before you even try.”
Darrkescru says “Toma cuidado tem uns mono nasus ae que consegue ganhar de teemo usa impeto gradual (Pra counterar o W dele) e fica sempre pokeando ao maximo”
Alzeidx says “Try to deny his stacking whenever you can, zone him early,you can deny him by freezing or trading with your W to prevent him from stacking cannons. build up fury and look for all in at level 2, you'll need to sit top most of the game.
Go Conqueror”
iTzToniOP says “Ask to your jungler for some help, you will need it. You can win by hitting lvl 6 before he does, but theres no way you can win a duel later.”
Alzeidx says “It will be hard to kill him early, and he will outscale you later, ask for ganks to get lead, then it will be very easy to wreck him, go top with Ignite and try to kill him on lvl 5 or 6.”
ForOrion says “Same as the Croc, Susan will eat you up for breakfast. The only time you can fight is levels 1-3, if you can get ahead by punishing his need for farm you could stop him from getting to big later on. Other than that just don't take this on.”
TotallyEclipse says “Rush executioners calling or bramble first item, then all in him every chance you get. + Ignite, you will win as long as you dont stand in his E. You can upgrade into Mortal Reminder/thornmail later to counter him and/or grab Guinsoos/BORK.
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MarKoXGOD says “Nasus is a good match-up. Since he needs stacks to be useful, your ranged pokes will be an absolute necessity, but if you outfarm him, don't let him get stacks, and maybe even get some early kill(s), you are good to go.”
Flompers says “Hard matchup. Early he´s hard to kill because he has a lot of hp. The longer you wait killing him the harder it gets. He will be under tower a lot. Try to kill him after a lane reset. Personally I hate this matchup.”
Walnut25 says “Try and abuse his early game. He is a massive threat late so try and bully him out of lane so he does not get his stacks. He outscales you late, so try and deny him cs by freezing early.”
ACE4291 says “would be tiny but minor only because his R can hurt and can get you killed.
shut him down early by bulling him.
avoid his aura when he places it on minions,
just dont let this guy farm. pressure him off minions.
if he tries to 1v1 you win early game.
if hes fed AVOID
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DirtyDishSoap says “You beat him at every stage and shockingly enough, outscale him. unless he somehow gets a 1000 Q stack, you should probably be worried, but the likelyhood of that happening is close to never. You don't rely on AAing, so wither is just a slow to you, your wall prevents him from going all in, your ability to shred his health with maiden is going to be insane, seriously, he has no chance against you, at any given point.”
AskMeHowToGp says “Very easy to fight him since he needs you to be literaly beside him so he can deal you damage, poking him and not giving him cs eather by pushing or by freezing is a good way to win vs nasus.”
SabinX says “You control him early game so either try to freeze so he can t touch minions and maybe pull out a kill or 2. But don't forget he scales and most probably will stack some armor too, so don't disrespect his late.”
Kingarthur720 says “early game easy and late game impossible. One of the few things i can recommend vs nasus is build a frozen mallet, PD and youmuus to try and outrun him even with his slow. Make sure to get your kills early because late game hell rarely die to anyone.”
VIP Titan says “Ruined King is a must for Nasus too. Try maybe rush executioner as well for the reduce in health.
Tips:
Don't fight Nasus in his E circle and when he got W try not to fight.
MAX E not Q”
ShaharKarisi says “Nasus early on is very easy to beat, take Legend: Tenacity to counter his slow. In the late game you physically can't win unless both you and your jungler are extremely fed, roam often to mid lane and the Drake to ensure objectives.”
Vodka4Gaben says “Don't let him stack as he will be a problem for the rest of your team. If he gets 300 stacks you will still beat him with 2 tentacles and your ultimate because he just can't outdamage your healing. Just don't let him stack as he will be an issue for your team and not you.”
Starci says “You win early since you can bully him when he goes for cs, but after he hits 6 and buys sheen he will most likely defeat you in a 1v1. Try to get as much of an advantage until this happens.”
Discord Rengar Mains says “Always respect the cane. His early game is garbage, sure, but if he ever manages to scale you will do jackshit against him since you are a melee champion who is all or nothing, and he LOVES facing against those in the mid to late game. You will have a relatively easy time until he gets Sheen and 100 stacks, then with his ult he will start winning most fights. Keep the pressure going from very early, the longer you delay his powerspikes, the better, since it will allow you to snowball other lanes and win the game before he becomes a problem. Don't leave him too much on his own however; he can splitpush VERY hard with some stacks and you might find yourself short an inhibitor real fucking soon. Ignite works well since you want to kick him out of lane ASAP. Conqueror is also nice, albeit you might want to consider changing bloodline for tenacity to deal with his slow. Bruiser builds work well against him, and you might want to consider getting BotRK.
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J 2 the ROC says “You win trades with him most of the time, but his slow makes your auto attacks weak. Get him to Ult and then play aggressively while its on cooldown.”
Itreallyhim says “Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q.
Reverse rake, Shield and play agressive early, Abuse this dog and stop him from farming. Be careful with his W, It will screw you if their jungler comes.”
Rivenetto says “If u know wave magament this should be easy.If u have jg premade just babysit this guy.After level 6 you cant fight him and he outscales you.Before level 6 hes easy.”
classicnoob says “Smack him and smack him again and again,when he comes for farm,do not let him gain stacks,Deny him from stacks as much as possible try to Bait out his ult by going in extended trades.Get a bit of armour.”
HeyItsLeemo says “Nasus isn't very hard to kill in early, just let the lane push itself, if he's dumb he will just rush lane and you can get a first blood easily, but if he's a good Nasus he will play safe, stack his Q and in late will be a walking nightmare to melee champs.”
The Ryann Kingg says “Make sure to punish him in lane before he is able to get stacks. You will able to win the trades early on especially with Ignite, but if he reaches his stacks. you won't be able to damage him, and your regen won't be able to keep up with his damage. ”
top is high impact XD says “you can't bully him as hard as you want to and he outscales, he can also go frozen heart first item which negates a lot of the dmg from botrk”
DobbieTheElf says “Another bully. Not as hard as Renekton, but still one to be careful of. Early on try and trade with Q -> AA as he is slow and probably can't do much about it, especially if you are running fleet.”
Asoreth says “I simply do not like Nasus as a champion at all, you can destroy him in lane and not let him farm all game, but he can easily comeback, and the outcome could be devastating. You certainly win this matchup, but you could have bad luck against this dog.”
SuperPopo7 says “fight fight fight. Don't be a pussy in this lane. Unless you see the Nasus push so hard for no reason FREEZE NEXT TO YOUR TOWER. that will be the end of Nasus. but most likely he wont push so just fight fight fight you can even dive when done correctly ”
Cats4lyfe123 says “Nasus can be really annoying to deal with once he gets some stacks. He'll wither you and make it hard for you to get away while he mows you down. He also gets fairly tanky, making it a hard matchup. Try to bully him out of cs in the early laning phase, but back off when he reaches level 6.”
ShinyEmo says “Finish the game as fast as possible as he can be a big problem at late game. All in him every time when he tries to farm. Take ignite for maximum kill pressure. Lethal Tempo rune and on-hit core recommended. ”
Oblak says “He can become something very strong if you don't manage to use your kit to stop his Q farming, your E and W are perfect to 1v1 him, so, try to bully him as much as posible”
Death Rusofag says “Escala más que cualquier otro en el juego y se hace imposible de lidiar con él. Juega agresivo, niega experiencia y CS, busca hacerlo regresar o matarle en early game. Heridas graves y ninja tabis serán tus mejores aliados.”
AkenoSenpai says “Nasus is somewhat comperable to Kayle. Also in this case you want to freeze the lane early on and propably skip on early tiamat. try to deny him the farm as much as possible, but be careful of him, a, sheen, a bit of armor and his ult can easly be enough for him to beat you unless u have made a strong lead on him.”
Jays_v says “This Dog is outscale you really hard, If he building Frozen Heart first item, then you kind of useless to him. Call your jungler go top Lv 3 or 4. Take Conqueror and Ignite,dont build Tiamat if you not ahead”
TrollingSmurfGr says “Naturally Nasus is no match for a lane-bully early game, but you have to act fast before he starts building against you. On-Hit builds will favour the lategame for peeling Nasus, but are hopeless at killing him after the first or second back. Going Crit AD will have superior mixed damage that isn't hurt too hard by Wither. Taking AD and Electrocute, plus any lantern ganks you can get, will absolutely destroy Nasus. Lategame, whether you're on-hit or not, your amazing CC will keep Nasus off your team.”
Thr3shPrinc3 says “This is a lane you will always win. This is one of the lanes in which you want to take Press the Attack and play with Ignite instead of Teleport. You can bully him early and kill him easily if he over extends for farm, but even if he doesn't you can deny him from farming and just nullify him for the entire early to mid - game. Late game he will probably be strong anyways (Because he is Nasus), but you do have enough peel and CC to stop him from killing your team in late-game. Post level 6 you want to try and save your Ignite for when he uses his ultimate and starts wacking you with Q's.”
ForgottenProject says “Poke him with Q early
Deny him as much CS as possible
You don’t have to kill him, just deny him CS by freezing the wave and fighting him if he tries to walk up
Waste his R by parrying his W (wither) and baiting it
If you can’t parry wither, then parry one of his Qs and dash away, and then fight him later when you have R and he doesn’t
Keep pressure on him Mid to Late game constantly, and don’t let him free stack, even for a few minutes”
Gunford says “Nasus can do much nothin early on vs you. Just poke him with AutoAttacks and buy Executioners Calling and you are fine against him. Buy Merc Threats because of his slow. Poke him under Tower with your Q constantly but save your mana too get away vs ganks.”
Braddik says “Rush executioners calling first item, then all in him every chance you get. + Ignite, you will win as long as you dont stand in his E. You can upgrade into Mortal Reminder later to counter him and/or grab Guinsoos/BORK.”
Speez says “For some reason i never win into him, sure i can get 2-3 kills on him early but then after he gets ult you never win if he has sheen or tabis just annoying at most, ROAM”
SirVermillion says “His new buffs makes Nasus ridiculously annoying, slowing you down with his wither, and chunking half your health with his Q. You only have a pre level 6 window to show dominance in this lane and sneak a kill or two but after level 6, I suggest playing it safe. ”
enderare says “Easy pre second back but once he gets about 100 stacks and some levels he just withers you and ults and nothing can really be done if hes not a tard. ”
Trial_By_Barrel says “Nasus can and will be very strong late game which means you have to abuse his bad early game and save oranges for his wither (W).”
AGKH says “Easy then hard matchup
Push in and trade first 2 waves into tower
Let the wave bounce back and freeze
Potential all-in at lvl 4 with high hp + fury
DO NOT directly confront him late game
Lethal Runes”
Pedrokis says “Uma das matchups mais fáceis pro Aatrox, se não a mais fácil de todas. / Só não deixar ele stackar, bota muita pressão nele que 99,9% das trocas são suas (mesma dica do Yorick). / Se ele ficar grande no late game pode ser um problema, mas com você e algum champion de alto dano por segundo ele é "praticamente" burstado.”
Daedralus says “Extremely easy matchup as you can instantly get back all the HP you lost to him easily. His W is your only problem as attack speed and movement speed can be useful at times, but with the usage of your Q and ult, you have gap closing capabilities as well as sustain potential within this state.”
EnchantedCat says “I didn't want to put this in 'Extreme' since you can counterplay Nasus, however, this requires good kiting, phase rush, and a team with CC. And a jungler.
This matchup is hard for the reason that he can free stack since your damage is a tickle to him early game and depending on his item build, probably mid/late game too. Not only can he free stack but he can slow both you and your attack speed with his W, lower your already low as heck armor with E and just run you down with his 250 stacks he probably has since you require a jungler to slightly punish him since he sustains everything you throw at him. Matchup is really hard but isn't completely unwinnable since you can QSS his slow/use phase rush if you want to kite him out since that's Nasus's weakness and your R blocks most of his damage, if your team has a ton of CC that's even better.”
Askio says “If he gets to late game he is done, but early game Naut can freeze lane and cc him to death. Set up a lot of ganks and teach Susan that no, not every dog has its day. ”
TheRevenantsHand says “The smallest of threats early game, this guy is going to be a pain late game. Bully him as much as you can in lane, and NEVER ULT before he does as you'll get the upgraded stats.”
biurifull says “[BR] Só não vá para cima dele, ele nem te mata, nem você mata ele. Espera um gank e tente farmar o máximo possível e priorize seu TP para TF (team fight).
[EN] Just don't go after him, he won't kill you, nor will you kill him. Wait for a gank and try to farm as much as possible and prioritize your TP to TF (team fight).”
ozmankaan says “DONT LET HIM FARM FREELY, enough said, you let him farm you dont only lose lane bt match too, at start he is squishy, poke him stay close to your minions to keep on 'AA' him, dont let him 'Q' on a minion with low health, disdain him whenever he try to do this, after disdaining apply purge, it will give him huge decrease in health, his heal is good he will get his full health within few seconds so beware. dont let him kill minions bt your CS should be higher get your Black cleaver ASAP, take lead and keep on destroying him, you can kill him he is not a prob for you just not let him get his 'Q' out of control. 'imp' jung mostly help nasus players so beware of jung attacks.”
JPlayah16 says “Unless he plays very aggressively, Nasus won't do much to hinder you early on, but his ability to grow in power will force you to be very selective about when you leave lane to gank. It's the threat to your tower and team that hinders you more than anything. Once he gets a lead on you, you won't be able to engage him solo for the rest of the game. Focus on other targets and only fight him with your team.”
Split King says “If you don't get some kind of early advantage he can just use ultimate and spam wither on you to end you. But you do have the upper hand pre 6, so stop his farm and zone him as much as possible. You can use blind before he tries to get a stack so he won't get it. ”
BeautifulWinter says “He out scales you and can do a lot of damage however in laning and in mid game you should be able to bully him. Respect early levels and wait for 6 before playing aggressive.”
feederfromelohell says “If you don't stop him early he will outscale very hard. Be careful not to feed him too much. You want to focus on denying his stacks instead of focusing the turret in laning phase.”
Big Belly Bop says “Another one of Senna's tough match ups. It looks easy since you're able to abuse him early game but once he gets some CDR and level 6, you're DONE. Deny him CS, poke, freeze your wave, and ask your jungler to keep coming. If he W's you, just E out and W him for the root. Flash + TP, Doran's Blade + 1 HP, Gotta Blast! rune page.”
ExfIamed says “As easy as your mom on a Sunday morning, you HAVE to constantly trade with him from level 1 to 6 and I mean q'ing him thousands of times before your even level 2, thats how easy he is. And you can kill him over and over and over again, but watchout for ganks cause if you die he gets stacks and basically when you come back his Q at that point probably does half your hp.”
9690 says “This lane is easy just make sure to punish Nasus early when he goes for CS. Also snowball the lane post 6 with R. If Nasus gets ahead this lane becomes a nightmare, like all Nasus lanes. Don't let it happen and it won't be a problem. Play aggressively.”
ENX Kai says “Who let the dog out? Punish him when he try to last hitting CS. Don't let him farm. Freeze your lane. He can be a problem late game as he can push towers real quick.”
LoganGarnett says “Stacks vs. Stacks. Early on you bully him hard out of his VS and Stacks. E slows you - you slow and Root him. Make sure to buy Executioner's to maintain your advantage. ”
LuxIsMyCrush says “12 stacks tho, you can blind his Q, but he will most likely susrive enough to do more 3 Q and slow you more than your shrooms with augument and rylai would slow him. Before 100 stacks is not hard tho, after that he can most likely kill you, after 150-200 stacks is almost certain he will win any 1v1 (with you at least)”
Defensivity1 says “Whilst nasus seems like a really easy matchup or lane to be up against he can stack his q off of your ghouls and having him permanently shoved under his tower can be a huge mistake as it allows him to safe farm, whatever you do if it gets to lategame or midgame nasus will be a threath when he hits 300 stacks or more depending on the lead you have it depends really, but never random engage a 300 stack nasus if ur not atleast 10 kills above him.”
Teemuska says “This matchup is pretty easy untill Nasus gets over 100 stacks. Then he should have some points on W aswell so he can catch up to you pretty well. However Phase Rush should help you enough so he can't kill you.”
Quezel says “Nasus is quite easy as he has no early game and you can thoroughly abuse him until he gets sheen ult and over 100 stacks then you need to start respecting him. Look to set up a freeze on him and poke with q or use your e to deny him last hits get seekers tabi bramble in order to guarantee you win 1v1 as you will need them later to make sure he doesn't kill you.”
SNOBOY says “This just sucks. You have very little kill potential against him because he heals up so much and you kind of just slow poke him. You can't combo him because he usually get pretty tanky, and has his ult. Just hope for lots of ganks.”
mightydylan101 says “You have to zone nasus or at least be a threat in the lane because if you let nasus farm then he will gain stacks and easily be a dominate player in the mid to late game.”
ProgettoYorick says “Winning or losing against nasus depends only on your actions. Letting him farm is a stupid action. Your E + ghouls are really strong against him. At level 6 whoever plays best wins.
Advice from OTP:
I advise you to go aggressive against nasus, without forgetting the farm”
ScythedS says “1.Stoopid champ!!!!!!All he does is play safe early on,get stacks and then run you down while sling you and beats you.You don't have enough damage early on to stop him from farming and he can out sustain all the damage you do to him with his passive.Call for jungler and if he doesn't come hardpush the enemy wave and try roam to mid to snowball other lanes.Also if you think that hardpushing waves under his tower will prevent him from stacking, you are wrong!!!This guy can stack like a boss under tower XDD”
Xelaadryth says “He just outsustains any damage you can deal to him once he gets to around level 6, and his wither ruins your energy ball. The way he lanes also forces you to push. Try to let him push at level 1 and attempt to set up a freeze, forcing him to E to cs. You may have to give up the first few minions and not harass him for awhile though.”
Skarner Main says “Run klepto vs nasus or conqueror and everytime he trying to stack just e him go for 2 autos walk out
Get as much klepto as you can
If he got conqueror and he pops ult on you just run away dont trade him he will outheal your dmg DO NOT DIE vs nasus solo”
AlienMV says “He isn't really threatening to you during 1-6, but you also can't exactly poke him out. Later in the game, his W will ruin your day. Would recommend building tank killer items in advance to prepare for his scaling.”
Lasoor says “[Top] You do more damage than him, have more mobility, and similar if not better sustain. The main thing you lack that he has is natural tank-ability which is handled by your items. You are simply stronger than Nasus in every way when it comes to 1v1ing, team fighting, and split pushing. However if it is an AP Nasus you might have an issue, as AP Nasus can do a lot to you early on without being hit.”
Mr. Nyahr says “Don't let him farm well. If you can deny cs, do it even if you're costing yourself farm. Abuse his lackluster early game and try and bait out his ult.”
yetusek says “Lethal Tempo Runes. Ignite + Flash. Long sword refillable potion start. Can also run Grasp Runes and Build with unflinching and tenacity instead of revitalize and alacrity with dorans blade start. Nasus is VERY weak in the beginning of the game. Your ability to set up a snowball against him is what will determine your ability to split push against him in the mid-late game. Here is my general strategy against Nasus, Look to pressure hard level 1 and 2, always start trades off with an auto attack when he goes up to farm a minion. Get level 2 advantage first. Get the second wave completely into turret before the third wave comes up so that the enemy minion wave can "bounce" towards you (aka push towards you.) Then only last hit at the last possible second while it pushes towards you, this makes it so you hold a freeze against him. Don't let the minion wave get too big or he will press E and hard shove the wave. Try to hit level 4 around the same time as nasus, once you are level 4 as long as you didnt take too much damage holding the position of the wave close to your turret you can look for an allin yourself OR you can set up easy ganks for your jungler. If you want, you can take tiamat to put a bunch of pressure onto nasus and you can choose to either hit nasus's turret for plates or take small auto attack + spin out trades (if you do it perfectly you don't take a turret shot.) Don't use your tiamat on the auto attack + spin out, instead after you spin out walk back in and press tiamat and damage him and walk out before you take turret aggro. Be looking to always set up ganks/dives for your jungler to easily take. In the mid-late game if you effectively shut down Nasus you can maintain pressure on him and/or rotate to flank his team while he tries to get back in the game. If you are behind in the mid-late game against him you need to look to use your superior mobility to make moves around him, but don't directly confront him 1v1 or he will drop D cane on you.”
OneMustFall says “In typical Nasus fashion, you won't have trouble with him until post six and he has some items. Once he does though, you'll have to surrender priority to him without serious jungle help. The build will allow you to survive against him at all stages but you won't be able to win trades past a certain point so win as hard as you can early on.”
Kalrex says “You beat him in the early to mid-game. Late, he will be one of your biggest threats as he will put out even more damage and healing than you. End the game before 30 minutes and try not to let him Q any cannons. ”
T_ired says “Nasus é bem chato lategame, garanta seu jogo no early, não o deixe farmar e fique pokando ele, peça ajuda a seu jungler se ele estiver forte, jogue recuado se precisar, sua ultimate pode te ajudar se ele quiser trocar, mas cuidado, o Q dele pode realmente machucar”
Bajnok says “Try to poke as much as you can. You have chance before Nasus reaches level 6. After level 6 look for kills on other lanes, roam a lot, but don't let him to stack a lot. In this situation I recommend TP instead of ignite”
lordfipi says “Just keep hitting him if he gets to close to your minions and dont let him stack. If he tries to get you just use your Q, E or R to keep him away.”
AsomeSonic says “easier in lane than late game...., you can kill him 5 times in lane but if game goes for 25+ mins he will 1v1 you, peel him off or ult him in teamfights, just stand between him and your carries, q is good here”
Polkadog says “Nasus is like you, at least his Q is. If he slows you down or just wants to get you, use your W and you should be safe. Just don't push too much since he can do a really good switch-a-roo of who's dealing the damage. But if you get him into your W and his R is on cd, go all in!
W, R, E, Q = kill. This is the very famous WREQ ("wreck") tactic :D
This should force him to back off, but don't engage if you're missing too much health.”
JohnRaged24 says “In a lane against Nasus take the "Healing" Rune Page and try to force him away from the minions. try to trade Qs when one of your minions die (so he can't stack it) and try to keep the Grasp active.
Go for deep wards because if you force him away from the minions you are very gankable. Always max Q for the trades”
Chromuro says “A lot of people say that nasus is the natural counter to illaoi because he can farm your tentacles, but I don't agree: his early damage is miserable and if he's not careful, he goes OOM with nothing. Deny his farm as much as you can, shove the wave under tower so he can't farm effectively. He can farm your tentacles? You spawn one every ~15 seconds, it's not stack efficient and you only need your Q for him.”
superbardock says “This guy, in my humble opinion, is the undisputed god-child of top lane. Every top guide should list him as a threat - EVEN if it it's a Nasus build. This fucker is dangerous. I would have listed him as a 5 but in my game testing I have managed to beat him if I remain crafty enough. Plus you can still usually sweep the turret from under him even while eventually your turrets just become Stack-snax for his Q. ”
blunderr says “Nasus can run you down, just try poking him as much as possible and if he does catch you in his combo use your shroom to slow him down and your W to escape from him. ”
Essela says “One of the hardest matchups.His W literary crushes you if u dont win this lane hard he will outscale you and can easily kill you in 1v1 trades.So you have to look for early kills against nasus”
EpicDan01 says “One of the few lanes where Mundo can be the bully. If he runs Conqueror he can kill you, but you have good enough peel with your Cleavers that you can deny him the kill if he manages to win trades. At level 6 he can beat you but not after Sunfire.”
Rhinoface says “You smash him in lane. Only tip (helps in lane too), mostly for late game is to ult him after he ults. You steal his extra health / armor / mr”
HKRV says “Don't let D CANE stack. He may freeze the wave and just stack then ults on you with a Sheen+150 stack and ankle broking W leaves you to no escape. Abuse the early game a lot. Poke as much you can, if he farms up you are deleted. ”
Weakling says “Although you can beat him in the laning phase and bully him a lot, no matter how hard you get fed in the late game even with 200 stacks he can get you down with 4 of his Q's”
Poppu says “Nasus will outscale you over the course of the game. When I'm up against Nasus, I harrass all the time and stop him from getting CS and stacks. Freezing waves and denying him cs slows down his progress. If you get to late game, better hope your ADC is good. ”
Aizo says “Nasus is going to scale to lategame pretty uncontested because of maokai's limited ability to reliably push nasus off the wave and get stacks. All you can really do is peel him from your team and don't gift him free +12's on killing you”
SoulHero says “Legit just win with lvl 1 flip trade, poke him, get dorans and second wind BECAUSE, he will just throw e's at you and u can heal back(trust me) if he all in's you, you flip and kite out of his e and kill him. HIS W SLOW DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR W ATK SPD. Just freeze lane and win. GET EXECUTIONERS.”
Katokirinku says “Its 50/50 .
Because you can farm from klepto pretty easy and do some damage .
But if you roam you will give nasus a big advantage . So that TP ! ”
DivineShadows says “Directly counters you through Wither and scales just as well if not better than you can, although it's rather odd, phase rush is good against him once you proc it.”
DrNaara says “A fellow raidboss! Keep him small, try to zone him off from cannons especially! Early game, ask for a gank, get a small lead for yourself and freeze the lane so he can't approach and get stacks, when he comes near, punish him hard, he will likely be trying to just Q a minion.”
ViperManEU says “(TOP) When u are againts nasus u want to dont let him stack.. but its hard to not let him stack... just poke him and try to kill him when u are lvl 3 - 8.. so he dont get stacks..”
empoleonz0 says “I used to get hella stressed over this guy but recently I've found that as long as your rush Executioner's and all in him every time you have your ghouls up he can't do anything against you. He does outscale you eventually though so watch out for when that happens and avoid dying to him in a 1v1”
homxr says “Shouldn't be a hard lane, rush Bramble Vest, and do your best to deny him farm. Last hit your minions, and engage on him when he goes in for a stack. Don't push the wave.”
Lynboe says “Nasus ne peut rien faire si vous décidez de freeze la vague de creeps a moins de maxer son E, ce qui le rendra très faible pour la suite de la game.
S'il s’avance, il mourra à cause de vos combos et de votre Conqueror.
Vous pourrez le punir à chaque fois qu’il essaiera de récupérer un cs.
Mais attention, une fois niveau 6 et avec une Brillance ce chien peut vous surprendre même si vous avez un niveau d’avance, il reste dangereux, jouez autours de ça et il ne pourra pas gagner la lane.
Dans ce match-up le Phase Rush peut être intéressant car il permet de rendre son W presque inutile et de le rattraper en cas de fuite, les bottes de mercures sont également un choix envisageable pour réduire la durée du spell mais, afin de choisir il faudra faire attention à la composition de son équipe.”
Jnewbringspain says “Like most Nasus matchups, it's easy early on, and hard later on. Try to harass him early and stop him from stacking Q. Pick your fights more carefully as time progresses. Eventually you won't be able to 1v1 him, so try to delay the inevitable.”
messketchup says “Start with corrupting potion and W. 99% of nasus players start with Q at lvl 1. Your job here is simple, cheese lvl 1 and deny nasus any farm. When u get lvl 2 all in. As summoners take Flash ghost and as mastery phase rush with nullifying orb.”
PandaSenpai101 says “Bully him for every CS he tries to stack. Never leave him alone in lane, because of the amount of stacks he gets from jungle monsters, cannon minions, epic monsters. If the game drags for a really long time, Nasus will outscale you. Try to close out the game early.”
SteamingBullet says “You will be able to deny him plenty of stacks with harass, and his wither is countered by your slow. If he gets his stacks up or gets good enough ganks, you may be in trouble.”
Devitt45 says “You can stomp him early game, so try to stop him from getting stacks and try to put him out of the game entirely. If he does get stacks, farm hard until you have you 2nd Infinity Edge, then try to kill him if he has a lot of damage. If he ults any time in lane or out, run away from him.”
Zestysquid says “He will outscale you. As always with a Nasus killing him early is critical. As for a gank if you need to. I like to let him use his wither, Q into boxes, and come out of invisibility by using E or something to pretend like you're vulnerable.”
Jnewbringspain says “No different from any other matchup Nasus has. He loses early if you play it correctly, but will overwhelm you as he gains cooldown and stacks. Try to slow him down early and let your jungler know when you can't handle him anymore.”
Prince Afghan says “Nasus won't cause you much problems. He has no escape for your W and trapping him is easy because he has no movement steroids or abilities. After level 6 he becomes much harder but you can force out his ult and re-engage once its done.”
M2 Jizu says “Nasus no te hará nada en early, cada vez que quiera farmear atraviesa tu Q (Trata de dejar la Q en posición para atravesarla cada vez que el quiera farmear, es una mecánica un poquito avanzada pero con el tiempo la vas a aprender)
La linea está free para ti, no le pushees, freezea la linea siempre, nunca le metas los minions bajo torre, asi no podra farmear nada, ya que cada vez que quiera farmear lo vas a castigar :)”
AmnesiaT says “Dont let him stack. Always poke him with your Q.
If you play a few match against nasus you'll understand why im saying this.
He will be so useless without stacks... :D”
mahlightning says “Unfortunately you can't let him farm. You need to keep him off the farm at the beginning of the game. Luckily you beat him in lane early just ward for his jungle and play aggressively.”
weedskyze says “You should destroy him in early game. Win 1v1 at 6 with ults. In late he can't chase you nor kill you in a 1v1 but care if he ults ( don't stay in melee).”
Bombabo says “You should do your best to make sure that nasus never gets to touch his minions in the early laning phase. You have all of the tools you need to keep him at low health and prevent him from farming. At level 6, you can fight him as long as you fave your ult, and will likely need assistance after that unless you are snowballing”
0mega best says “Kill him as early as possible, dont let him gain stacks and poke him alot. Hope he dosent get fed and if he is call for ganks and play safe.”
RainbowNova says “Nasus can be very annoying. He can tank most of your damage early, because of his lifesteal passive and Q stacks. Once he hits 3 he will try to all-in you, so be careful as you're not that tanky in the early game. Try to rush thornmail so his Q's will do a bit less damage and he'll heal less. ”
Lil Tidepod says “New Nasus with his 12 stacks for Q is a big screw you from Riot Games to almost every top laner that has to play against him. While he is relatively easy to outplay, if you let him farm up his Q for free in laning phase he will deal so much damage and be so tanky that he will make your life absolutely miserable. I recommend calling for the jungler early and getting one or two kills on him before ten minutes. It will really slow his roll, and hopefully give your team enough time to get enough kills to effectively deal with this behemoth. Beware, though: if your game goes past 30-35 minutes, Nasus is likely to be an almost unkillable powerhouse.”
zygiux says “You can easy kill him untill lvl 6, after that he mostly have armor so you won't do alot of dmg to him and he will kill you easly with his stacked Q so in early levels try to not let him farm.”
MoreLoliconThee2nd says “The thing you need to do against a Nasus is pressure him really hard so that he cant stack with his Q. Be careful if he starts to freeze though because he'll have it easier if that happens.”
Dr.Chrishock says “POKE Q EARLY
you can win him pretty easy but you will push towers and he wil have more oportunities to farm under his second or third tower so take care vs him and try to ward enemy jg so you cant get camped
he will prob buy frozen hard first bcz it counters you really bad ”
SplashEUW says “It's pretty hard to keep pressuring him. He's just gonna farm and get his stacks, mid game he's going to be OP. Try your best to bully him in lane and the only good thing is that most Nasus players stay in lane the whole game, so you can roam and gank lanes that are in trouble.
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LighterDay says “With Morde ult, you take Nasus' core stats from him. This makes his abilities and damage weaker, so it's easier to fight him. Harass him with your E and Q if Nasus tries to stack.”
ImpossibleLogic says “Nasus. If you know how to manipulate wave and not just constantly push it into his tower is free elo as you can poke him from range and if you don't allow him to stack you can all in him whenever you want and win.”
Killerbarrett says “As much as he can kite he's only good close range which you are almost completely better than him at. Hit your E and once you've got essence reaver you'll be shredding through him like nothing.”
Puppeteer_TH says “If Nasus get fed, Shields in this build will be break easily since Nasus stacks on Siphoning Strikes (Q) is absolutely pure damage!”
Hunterlogic says “Only reason for placing him even is if you mess up early game some how, you need to abuse him early and freeze the lane near your turret to prevent him from getting stacks. If you do this you will easily win against him, failure to do so and you will have a hard time but it is still possible.”
GrGamingTeo says “Nasus is hands down one of the worst early game champs in the entire game. You need to take full advantage of that by q spaming in and out of the brush making sure to never push Nasus under tower, You need to freeaze against Nasus to deny him to farm ro else he will stack his q and dominate you. ”
GrGamingTeo says “Easy early, kill him early, punish his mistakes of trying to farm and find to early finish the game because he will YEET on everybody with his goddamn stacks. But seriously, Nasus really hurts in late game.”
DrMoneybags says “The dog is pretty easy to kill early on so long as you don't let him free-farm safely on his side of the lane. I would honestly suggest maybe holding off on building tiamat right away so that he can't just afk farm under his tower. Taking conqueror is a MUST most of the time since most Nasus players rush Frozen Heart first item. His wither is on a long cooldown early, so try to bait it out before you all-in. However, getting withered when his jungler is nearby is a death-sentence, so be sure to ward.”
Arcthunder says “It's weird how Runes Reforged creates even more powerful champs. He now deals a decent amount of damage early, which sucks for you. Before, you could trade easily and expect no counterplay. Now it's a bit more difficult. Still harass him, but be wary about an all in.”
Tiensama says “Its even since you both start off very weak. But when he w you you cant really escape and he slows your atk spd. He can ult on you and you have no choice but to fight him.”
Big Boy Matty D says “His wither is really good against you, try to bait and fall back, re-engaging when it wears off. You have to kill him or deny his farm in lane otherwise he'll be the unstoppable one.”
Qubert64 says “Bully him in lane. Try not to go in without a jg when he has ult. If you can bait it out and taunt away then you win the next fight. Thornmail ruins his day.”
Twitchtv Quash says “You are not going to stop him from farming and at a certain point no matter how well you play you go bye bye. Only way to beat is to kite him away in teamfights or just play teamfights better than him. ”
MLGHARDSCOPEFTW says “General Note: I don't have entire weeks of experience on Singed. This list is just personal preference and how I see the matchup. This will be further worked upon in the future.”
The_CuItivator says “I don't actually like to face this champ after that Q buff. Late game will eat you up. And even in mid game he can beat the living hell out of you. Take help from jg. Don't let him stack. You don't want to face a 450 stack Nasus in 20 mins.”
Shderen says “HOW'S HE GONNA GET STACKS IF HE'S SILENCED? Nah for real, don't sleep on him - AP Nasus' Spirit Fire WILL pop you if you're not careful, but treat him as a generic mage, except now he just has to be melee. Fear his Wither, though. Nimbus Cloak and Phase Rush + Approach Velocity will let him run up on you so quick. You gotta nail every Starcall just to make it out alive, MAYBE. Threat level bumped up.”
OnionMilkshake says “Nasus if you know how to manipulate wave and not just constantly push it into his tower is free elo as you can poke him from range and if you don't allow him to stack you can all in him whenever you want and win
(Recommended: Conq)”
Jomppe says “ [Top] You do more damage than him, have more mobility, and similar if not better sustain. The main thing you lack that he has is natural tank-ability which is handled by your items. You are simply stronger than Nasus in every way when it comes to 1v1ing, team fighting, and split pushing. However if it is an AP Nasus you might have an issue, as AP Nasus can do a lot to you early on without being hit.”
MrFakeHero1 says “A lot of people will argue that Nasus is easy to play against as a Teemo, that is false. Any Nasus that takes ghost will 100% destroy Teemo in lane. Wither is too strong of an ability. *This is the champion I 100% of the time ban when playing top.”
Jettboy says “You and him just farm in lane, sometimes you E him but he heals it with his passive. Both of you get OP late game. He can 2-shot you late game and slow you for eternity, but if you kite well and with some help of your teammates you can kill him pretty easily.”
Khazem says “The classic scaling top laner. Very abusable early on but will outscale and become impossible to match for Rumble later on in the game. Look to build a big enough lead early so you can win the game before he gets too strong.”
Ethereal Ezio says “Be aggressive and don't let him stack, call for some ganks or kill him yourself once your health is higher then his in lane by a decent margin.”
Maverickov says “Good amount of mixed damage from Nasus. However, you outdamage him levels 1-3. After that you control the wave and zone him off. Level 6 he outdamages you and his slow negates your kite, however at level 9 with items you should win every 1v1.”
LosAngeloser says “Go critplank, this build does not work against him, because he will outscale you and smash you up regardless of what you build. In fact, if you see nasus picked, don't pick GP at all, pick pantheon and kill him early.”
GalathBoiz says “U cant really do anything against him, he will just farm up, ignore all of ur trade with his passive. Try to ask for gank early,poke him whenever he goes for minions, save ur E for his W. U win pre-6”
Tokor says “C'est quasi impossible de gagner ce matchup tout seul. Il scale plus vite que vous et son slow vous empêche littéralement de jouer. Demander des ganks en early si vous pouvez et essayez de le poke un maximum. ”
Evil Lightning says “So the thing with pimp doggy is he's weak early on, so it's likely he wont kill you much in the first 15 minutes. Just try to make as much "mistakes as possible”
The Lost Drawing says “Facil en 'early'. En late si te armas bien no sera un problema. Y en TF si no se arma al menos una 'Gloria Justiciera' no TF es media malita.
Juega agresivo y cuídate de su 'jg', ya que el 'slow' que mete es brutal facilitando los 'ganks' (solo Garen se lo quita facil con su 'Q'). Compra una 'Cuchilla' o un 'Verdugo' si te sientes con suerte”
ElleryTheViking says “This lane is incredibly easy. Pre 6 this lane is yours. Level 1 you should be able to take first blood or at least his flash. Wave management is important here cause if you mindlessly push under tower, he will stack and you will not get those free early kills. Post 6 if he's pushed up just ult, ghost and spam q and you will kill.”
K0FT3 says “If you are able to kill him early you will think you are the king but when he comes with first tanky item and sits under tower you won't be able to win any trades because of his endless slow. Always ban this.”
LonerFKS says “He is week in the first 10 minutes and when he reaches level 6 he will try to push you out of lane or kill you with the help of his jungler.”
kingkang2 says “Get an Executioner's Calling, pressure him early. As long as you have a lead on Nasus, he can't do much to you. He might mess you up late game, but don't let it get there.”
God Slayer Akali says “EXTREME WARNING: Do NOT let him farm, you have to be hyper aggressive to not have him get stacks.
The more stacks, the harder the lane is.”
E61K says “Start Doran's Blade and go Conqueror + Unflinching. Probably Darius' easiest match-up. All you have to do is freeze on him and punish/all-in him whenever he dares to come close. Never let him CS and always freeze the wave on him. Free matchup. There is legit nothing he can do, aside from trying to farm with his E I guess. ”
SwiftOblivion says “Strengths: Potentially out-scales, Built in sustain, Wither. Weaknesses: Weak and punishable early, Low mobility, can't 1v1 early. Gain an early lead on this guy and try your hardest not to let him get Q stacks. He is an infinite scaler so he has the potential to out-scale you late game which is the worst possible outcome for you as a Fiora player. Once the lane begins look to stop him from getting stacks early on as his damage isn't that high. Just be mindful of the size of the minion waves as any type of damage you deal to him other than your W will trigger minion aggro. Minions deal a surprising amount of damage to champs early on and can catch many people off guard who aren't used to trading effectively. Whenever you try to trade with him, use your Riposte to block one of his Q’s optimally when he already used wither on you and he’s committing to an All-in. Do NOT buy a Tiamat in this matchup as the last thing you want to do is shove a nasus under his tower early. This just gives him free CS and Stacks and you can’t reliably tower dive him yet because of how crippling wither is when you don’t have boots. Even Q poking in and out of tower range becomes risky if you don’t time tower shots well enough or if the Nasus is quick to react to your poke.”
Miracle Matter says “Fairly easy, as long as you respect his Ulti all-in kill potential.
Note that his wither lasts 5 seconds, and your E+Rewind+E lasts 2.5+2.5 = 5 seconds. Simply slow him, rewind instantly, then wait to chain the 2nd slow any time he tries withering you. That'll keep this doggy on a leash.
Don't let him catch you with wither while your slow/stun are on cooldown, or he can maul you quickly with his Ult's Q resets. As long as you keep him at a distance, you'll beat him fairly easily. (You even out-scale him.)”
Suthafru says “Nasus - Nasus' early game relies on farming, you can abuse this, with enough poke and zoning, you can force nasus to miss a majority of his cs, or be forced to take a chunk of his health in exchange.
playing against nasus as jhin is almost like training a pet, if he tries to q a minion, punish him, teaching him it is wrong.”
xafemode says “You might have an easier early lane and can shred him late, but a nasus that you struggle to kill and farms up will have a considerably greater impact mid game than you, especially if you cant keep him off your carries.”
drunken hunter says “Nasus has a weak early game and a very powerful late game. Try to do the lvl 2/3 engage and dont let him farm! Against Nasus get the black cleaver, the ninja tabis and much lethality/life steal. Else he will stack you like a minion...”
kkiskk says “Always get cleanse, if you don't, you're trolling. Build executioner's call as first item. It gives you descent AD and a powerful passive. Done the above 2 things, enjoy bullying him the whole game. ”
Daniloooo says “Shut him down early dont let him cs and run ignite play super agro and watch for ganks. After Nasus gets a couple of items and 6 he can run you down super ezy and his slow gives you cancer. Take phase rush and buy swiftys so he wont be able to run you down. W gives you MS too so use it. ”
Pancaku says “You are more than likely 100% going to lose the game after dying once as Nasus becomes too tanky and have ridiculous damage thanks to Riot's Q buff. *Recommed Perma-banning in Platinum+ if you plan on taking Katarina top*”
Sion says “Can be a major threat if you reach 30+ mins. But b4 that you can destroy him in lane. Just don't get too cocky as his jungle assistance is powerful with a targeted OP slow.
Anyways, just spam him in lane, shove him under turret and go for a Q that covers any minion he tries to stack on.”
TSA_Exotic says “It doesn't matter how much you harass him out of lane, by the time you get towards the late game he will have his Q stacks and a leveled up W he can continuously throw on to you to keep you in his auto distance.”
BeastKing says “The only thing that makes him a minor matchup and not a tiny is that he gets stacks from your tentacles. Place tenticles everywhere you can. Don't let him farm.”
Moccamasterpro says “Beat him in the early game or you get a problem. also don't leave him alone in a lane if you don't wanna end up as a caster minion.”
TheNecromancerr says “You are much stronger early game. Deny him farm as much as you can. Later he will beat your ass no matter what, but try to stomp him early since you are stronger and don't fight him in his E - NEVER. Also you can easy make him to waste his ult.”
Proxxecube says “The only reason Nasus has such a high rating is because you have to babysit him or he will begin to scale, regardless of how many kills you have. Early game you have a significant advantage, so just try to deny him as many stacks as you can. Call your jungler repeatedly to tilt him and keep him from stacking. Only roam when he is dead or himself roaming.”
VdeathSpartan says “Keep in lane and try and position your wave so they're dying under your tower. Poke aggressively and make sure he isn't left alone.”
S4TAN ES MI DI0S says “You'll never win a trade against him after 10 minutes of the game so try to kill him as fast as you can and don't let him farm.”
Cro The Maestro says “like maokai but unlike mao he scales too well, keep control on the lane, sit in front of the wave poking with q and farm, dont ever take ignite unless it's nasus jungle”
Cstrange says “Assuming you got the boots of swiftness your slow is as good as his, so kiting is no problem at all. Even without the boots you should be fine. Just punch the guy to your hearts content not letting him get any stacks.”
polarehare says “This guy and Renekton are just huge pieces of doo doo. when slowed try to cc the sh*t off of him and trust me, out trading this guy is the last thing you'll do, let alone escaping him.”
Bakiraka says “This guy scales even harder than you, so beat on him while you can. Go sheen early and poke (don't trade if you don't have to) to whittle him down and stop him from free farming. Later on, don't pick fights with him in side lanes and kite him in teamfights.”
Tvoi_clop says “Лёгкое противостояние. Не запушивайте линию под его башню, чтобы он не мог стакать свою Q. По возможности, после того как он подходит к миньону, дайте ему Q или автоатаку.”
Trixelkour says “Take Grasp and poke him out of lane, deny as much stacks from him as possible. Get Tabi into Adaptive Helm to minimize damage you take. DO NOT DRAG ON THE GAME, the more stacks the more dangerous. Peel him away from your ADC to win the teamfights. Threat level varies on how good the player is, and with the new buffs, good luck living through late game.”
heyitsRainex says “A good Nasus player would freeze the wave all the way to his tower and stack until mid game. This would result in you overpushing and get ganked multiple times.
Best tip would be to wear him down in the early game by poking, denying his farm, and have your jungler gank him multiple times.”
E61K says “For a while Nasus actually used to be a really strong toplaner with his recent changes. That doesn't change the fact that you can push him around early how you want. Abuse him pre-6 and be careful post-6 since his Q CD will be ridiculously low. How big his power spike at level 6 will be depends on how well you managed to zone him off farm pre-6. Knowing wave management in this matchup is essential. Lane snowballs heavy from both sides. Care for his Wither because it guts your attack speed, Q CD and movement speed, which in return will make your dashes super slow. Pre-Conqueror he used to be much harder to deal with because Yasuo didn't deal any damage. Now he is easily beatable.”
undeadsoldiers says “Nasus - Conqueror
Early items (in order) - Tiamat, Boots (into Mercs if he's ahead), Phage
- All in lvl 1-2 (passive stacked)
- Play aggressive in lane
- Aim for lots of trades with passive stacked
- Zone him off minions (to deny his Q stacks)
- Bait his ult by faking all ins and Qing out to low hp minions
- Freeze or farm under tower if behind (also preventing his Q stacks)
- Avoid 1v1 Nasus after lvl 11
- Ult cooldown: 120
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BreadyToCrumble says “How do you beat the dog? The answer is in the laning phase. Your early game is very strong. What I do is put a couple of points into W in the beginning. Poke him down as frequently as you can and then go in for the all-in. After a few W points, start max-ing Q. Sheen first back. Only try to trade once his R is down. Take PtA, Ignite and Cut Down, it'll really help you. Once he slows you, E out of his range - it might be a good idea to take the Tenacity rune so you don't have to buy Merc Treads. Overall if you survive the laning phase you survive the game. Shouldn't be too hard.”
Omega best says “Nasus is a skilled matchup, you must attack him early game and stop him from getting any minions, call for ganks, build armor and attack him early you will win, but if you dont play safe while hes lvl 6 he will destroy you so be very careful and dont let him farm at all cost ”
TehGuides says “Start dorans blade.Pretty easy matchup.Poke him when he is going to farm and never let him stack or else is gg.I prefer black cleaver for the armor”
LuxIsMyCrush says “his damage is bascially null until he get a Sheen, and probably will be looking to use his mana farming, be sure to bully him as much as possible early game, so he will not become a sick tilter to soon”
Zachlikespizza says “Nasus doesn't do too well into Aatrox but in being the 1v1 king he is it'll be a challenge to duel him. Try to keep lining up your q's to harass him in lane and save your w and a charge of your e for if he withers you; this will be your only escape. The only thing you really have going for you is your passive which will blow through his hp even if he ults. Above all make sure you don't feed him, it's better to go 0/0/0 and let him get farm than dying to him trying to prevent him from farming and then have him get the farm anyways.”
ninja8135 says “If the game gets late, he becomes more of a problem, but his early game is bad and yours is awesome. Abuse this as much as possible but do mind his whither. Its an odd choice but you may find clense or QSS to be useful in this matchup.”
Demon Lord AC0 says “No matter how much you punish him in the early game. Nasus has one of the scariest Mid-game powerspikes of the game. He will most likely Rush as much armor as he can on the early game. while rushing Trinity. He's not easy to kill in late eighter because of his W, and also because he endlessly stacks. You gotta play agressive in the early, but careful once he gets back the first time. You gotta Rush Merc Treads because of his W and Excecutioner's if you want to kill him”
Rading says “Easy in early as he has to step into your traps to kill you. If you are a good shaco player you will have a good time top in the early and mid game. He will destroy you in a 1v1 later when he builds MR so try to switch with your botlane.”
Coelinha says “Farm ele até os 25 min//Seja Farmado depois dos 25 min//Tente Freezar para evitar o farm dele//Se tu estiver forte,stack os minions e dive ele//”
FlakNShrapnel says “You could be braindead and still win this matchup, he can't do anything to you until level 6. After 6 be careful, but you can still win.”
HunterFreddy says “You'll have to be experienced with Singed. But if you try to harass him with your poison in the start of the game and wait till you have 3 items, you can easily outrun him and his slow, especially with boots of swiftness.”
iam colorblind says “Even if you have a huge CS-Advantage
he will clap u after he got Sheen or Trinity!
Set ur focus on Roams, but always push the wave in and deff ur Turret.”
TheSuporter says “He can't kill you but his wither will make it hard to kill him too. Poke him out of lane and try to kill him if you can, keep him from getting stacks.”
joelblack says “Good boi vs Dusty boi. Good boi wins. Your main priority is to abuse the shit out of this sandy dog so that he doesn't get Q stacks. AS early is recommended so your W can do all the work. Ignite if you really wanna turn this sand boi into glass. If he's a dumb boi aswell, you can kill before 6, but once you hit six, poke him down and all in on this bad boi. ”
OrangeBeard says “If you let him free farm he will kill you over and over, if you keep him off minions you can fight him as long as you have any sort of advantage”
DERPFISHrejects says “He's still gonna stack, but you can completely deny him his win condition with your incredible dueling power and range advantage on him. Keep him from stacking safely, try to freeze the lane on him if you can, and the doggo will never see late game.”
Dacnomaniak says “Nasus is a very easy lane. Play aggressive so he cant get his stacks and avoid getting to late game. Nobody likes a stacked up Susan.”
galvapheonix says “ Nasus is the same as Renekton, however slightly easier. Nasus will most likely stay in lane the whole game until late, providing you with the opportunity to push out other lanes and take team objectives. IF you decide to fight him, make sure you wait until his ultimate goes down and save your wall until he slows you so you can escape.”
thedunkening111 says “Food. If he steps up to farm, walk up to him and combo his face. If he gets into lethal, combo him and ignite him. Should die.
Take Conqueror.”
Thoir says “You have to bully him when he doesn't have stacks. Try to freeze under your tower or in the middle of the lane and, if he gets closer to farm, punish him.”
Amatzu says “Playing against a Nasus, there aren't really any champion specific tips besides spacing and denying CS. A well placed Q can be the difference 12 more stacks from a cannon minion. The timing is hard, but once you get the timing down with good ping, you can shut down a Nasus early on and hope their team FFs.”
AST Raposo says “Easy to gank early game,he cannot 1v2 neither outplay you or you laner. But Its very important you destroy him to not let him get strong.”
liserith says “Both late game threats, Nasus can be a pain in the ass. His clear is laughable; live in his jungle and make sure he regrets picking Nasus. Do not let him farm, and he is no more than a CC bot.”
poopyOCE says “If you are playing top, freeze lane to prevent him from stacking stacks and push him away from your minion wave. Get an early lead and run him down if he greeds stacks. Be careful of lvl 6 power spike due to R, and avoid getting frozen by nasus as you wont have fun instead.”
temple1997 says “Nasus can use his Wither on you as soon as you engage and escape, if he doesn't Wither you the chances are he is stacked to hell and will out damage you before you can kill him.”
suprfxivsilkshot says “This is a fun match-up for lane sion, but even better for jungle. Camp him early and often.
This can also be applied to any immobile tank that lacks a dash ability”
Karthus man says “Nauses jungle is fairly weak, especially in the early game. He needs to power farm to actually do damage, and as long as you keep your distance, you should be able to beat him. Try to invade early and take his camps and make sure he doesn't get to fed by counterganking his ganks.”
chiefdonut says “If you gank him, make sure to come in hot so you can flip him beofre wither reaches full effect. Recommend using predator and ghost at the same time. If you flip him early game, he is dead.”
IbnBattuta says “Nasus is a tough one to beat because he is insane tank and his Q deals massive damage in Late Games and his E will decrease your attack speed so be careful of him and don't get close to him and always fight while moving.”
Goku SSJ sensed your ener says “Only avoid him if he's fed, otherwise you win the 1v1 due to the high burst and q coming back at the most. Annoying splitpusher.”
OGPOTATOJEFFSHACO says “everything you do will be way better till he its 30 minutes. but if that happens you would have ganked all lanes and gotten all dragons. and Nasus would be still afk farming”
0kruemlmonster says “Well ... If he stacks, lvl 1-3 you beat him. lvl 4-5 he beats you. Lvl 6-11 you beat him. Lvl 11-16 he beats you and hyper late you beat him.”
LFS_aXent says “You can speed out of his slow, but with stormraiders, he will most likely catch you anyways. Be smart with ghost, farm under tower so he is forced to push up, and get early ganks from jungle to give you a big advantage. This will secure early lane for you to roam and take out the competition from mid and jungle.”
shaundasschaf says “Well ... difficult. In my experience I can say that you can't fight him 1-5, can fight him 6-10, can't fight him 11-18 and hyper late game you can fight him again.”
G2 Ryan says “Try to invade as much as possible because Nasus Jungle farms more than Nasus Top since no one disturbs him. If you have to face him, buy Ninja Tabis and Blade of the Ruined King before Bloodrazor.”
CryAwake says “Very easy to counter jungle early game if he farms up don't ever try to kill him yourself unless he's low or has his ultimate on cool down.”
Killerbacca10 says “DODGE JUST DO IT JUST DODGE. Its not a common pick. However he out tanks and out damages you. Nothing you can do just dodge. Don't ban him though hes not common. If hes top just counter gank him over and over.”
New Player says “If fed, you will need the help of another teammate to win against his push. His slow, if used on you, will make it hard for you to do much. He will beat you in a 1vs1.
I haven't played Nasus in a while, so I'm not sure if his ultimate deals health percent-based damage... but if he does, it will make him even harder to fight against.”
WiskeyANDGin says “its a pretty medium matchup,if u dont pay attention he can get fed and u wont be able to kill him easly, try and ult when he uses w,it will help u a lot”
ElBatataoBolado says “If with high stack, he will do a lot of self heal, then it will take more time to proc W passive and he also def break you, so he can be a problem”
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