Nasus Laning Guide

[odd shard]

Hi, im trying to main nasus, i see even he is a easy difficulty champion i found it really hard to use him againts poking champion in baron, the farming stacks is hard since the opponent will try stack their minions. Does anyone have tips on laning? thank you

[thorn timber]

Fleet footwork, second wind, teleport. Anything to make you be able to survive the landing phase. Learn to do good recalls where minions push to you and if enemy freezes don’t hesitate to ult just to crash the wave in instead of saving ult and losing 20 minions

[graceful barn]

you need to take the first bush and if they ward there ypu can destroy the ward with auto q auto. if you think itll be hard then get control ward or lens. its important that you freeze the wave infront of your tower so the enemy gets pressured about gank and if they try to poke you with auto get hit once and go back so your minions can hit them. when you do that enemy minions would hit yours and your minions would hit the enemy so it would be easier to pull the wave and have time until the next wave also freezes at the same point. dont let too many minions stack tho you need to maintain the difference to about 3. need to push wave as fast as possible if the enemy freeze the wave tho.

so basically, dont let them get vision over bush, farm with nasus' utility and better see enemy comb first before choosing it

[odd shard]

okay thanks for the suggestion

[odd shard]

so i need to bring the ward detector instead of ward when i first go to the lane?

i dont get it the way you say auto q auto

[graceful barn]

you can cancel auto motion with q when you use q right after the first auto

so you can take the ward without lens

[graceful barn]

depends what champ

you also have second bush if the first bush is warded

[odd shard]

which skill is q? the circle area?

[graceful barn]

and if you would win against enemy when they are close to you

[graceful barn]

the one you stack

[odd shard]

i see

got it

[odd shard]

so its fast enough to break ward when they first placed it?

[graceful barn]

yes

but they will poke you while you break it

[odd shard]

okay

[odd shard]

if they hold the minion in the middle what should i do?

if i go ill get poked but if not ill lose the gold

[graceful barn]

yes if they poke too hard then you need to lose like 3 minions then the wave will get pulled again

but dont use your e

it will make it worse

[steel bane]

Adc jg Player giving top lane advice

[graceful barn]

lane management xd

works with all champ

[odd shard]

okay i got it

[odd shard]

yeah i can see that the name kaisa

[graceful barn]

come aatrox 1 vs 1 later

itll be fun

[graceful barn]

ye jason best top i know so far actually xd

[odd shard]

jason you have any advice or suggestion or tips on this case?

[steel bane]

Honestly no clue how one can make nasus playable against humans

[severe sphinx]

So the idea is that you have to wait. With champ mastery you’ll understand when you finally cross the threshold and you’re allowed to fight. Go into every game with a weak side mentality and remember that xp matters more than gold. Spacing out peoples cooldowns BEFORE you go to stack is how you keep yourself safe. Bait out spells to make people push the wave into you, towers are stronger now. Abuse your passive and fleet ALLWAYS TAKE FLEET UNTIL YOURE LIKE TOP 100. Eventually phase rush, conquer, grasp, and the ghost/flash combo are viable but you will throw lane without fleet until you’re a god.

Wither is one of the best spells in the game and makes you a counter to late game carries like Jax, tryn, and every adc. Mana is a big problem early game and cooldown is busted on you so I like to start the game with lucidity and change them to resistance boots when convenient

[odd shard]

okay thank you

thats very useful tips

do you have any tips to target wither wher war happens?

because the targetting by dragging is pretty difficult and often i missed withering the tanks instead

[severe sphinx]

Gotta learn or use the champ lock buttons. Maybe changing your prio on cast to lowest health over lowest percentage might help for when you don’t aim

[steel bane]

“When war happens”

Pretty accurate depiction of what happens in low elo around 9 min in mid

[odd shard]

jason if you just here for being salty and not giving any suggestion i hope you can find another place T_T

[steel bane]

It wasn’t even being directed at you

Just found the wording funny

[steel bane]

I think there is a setting where you can make the game show you the champ portraits and you can lock them

[odd shard]

i see, thanks jason

[steel bane]

If you did that you could even spam w until they are in range

[odd shard]

oh i thought the lock only works for basic attacks

[tiny tinsel]

Isn’t nasus top horrible to play this patch?

Shoes are giga nerfed and bruiser items are like kind of weak or limited.

[abstract moat]

Doesn't he build a shen item into full tank?

[tiny tinsel]

No, last patch I saw people spamming cd boot,Tri,sunder, death dance, Seryl, and maybe amouranth

It’s more of a bruiser build

[severe sphinx]

It’s always the same, full ad go gauntlet, squishies go triforce(move speed is a busted stat), tanks need divine. Everything else besides your sheen item is conditional. The passives on tank items are op like randuins and frozen heart, warmogs has the healing buff to make your passive and potentially divine and conquer better, force of nature and deadman’s for move speed.

Itemization on nasus=your battle IQ