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Well, we finally have good news for Nasus. After months of being dumped on by Riot's balance team it appears he is getting multiple indirect buffs on the PBE 4.5.
- Teleport cooldown to towers reduced (4.4)
- Frozen Heart price reduced
- IBG price reduced
- Glacial Shroud price reduced
- Distortion & Alacrity Enchantments
In addition to other champion nerfs such as Elise, the above buffs are very significant as these are heavily used by Nasus players. With continued buffs to enchantments we may be able to get Teleport below a 100 second cooldown when taking masteries as well! This sounds a little OP so it's hard to say how this will effect the game as a whole. However, as far as Nasus is concerned this is huge.
Also, with Frozen heart and IBG having hundreds of gold shaved off their prices I wouldn't be surprised to see these items finally together. If nothing else one thing is for sure: having them cheaper is a large buff to Nasus and I can't wait to test them out in lane. The cheaper glacial will surely make stacking easier in the early game.
PBE Notes Link
- Teleport cooldown to towers reduced (4.4)
- Frozen Heart price reduced
- IBG price reduced
- Glacial Shroud price reduced
- Distortion & Alacrity Enchantments
In addition to other champion nerfs such as Elise, the above buffs are very significant as these are heavily used by Nasus players. With continued buffs to enchantments we may be able to get Teleport below a 100 second cooldown when taking masteries as well! This sounds a little OP so it's hard to say how this will effect the game as a whole. However, as far as Nasus is concerned this is huge.
Also, with Frozen heart and IBG having hundreds of gold shaved off their prices I wouldn't be surprised to see these items finally together. If nothing else one thing is for sure: having them cheaper is a large buff to Nasus and I can't wait to test them out in lane. The cheaper glacial will surely make stacking easier in the early game.
PBE Notes Link
He won no LCS games, and held a constant 51% WR before nerfs. He was fine. He's slightly under-powered atm if anything, imho.
In LCS they could just laneswap and shut him down easily. Even after the turret buffs to make laneswapping harder, Koreans still do laneswaps very frequently and some LCS teams still do as well. Picking him is a huge risk because of that.
In solo queue no such thing ever happens which means you have a pretty safe lane against most champions. Barely any champion can shut him down early on if you run teleport on a 200s CD, and those that can are typically outscaled really hard.
Honestly, one of the most important problems he faces atm is the ADC meta, Lucian and Caitlyn for example are the most picked ADC's who both have a solid way of kiting him (through slow removals and range)
The teleport buff was all nasus needed. Everything else will just make his lane too easy and make any counterplay impossible.
He won no LCS games, and held a constant 51% WR before nerfs. He was fine. He's slightly under-powered atm if anything, imho.
Even now I doubt he needs a buff, but then again I wouldn't know for sure since I don't play
Yeah cause Nasus totally needed a buff.
Yes he does need one because atm you can bully him early and take his tower long before he will have any real impact on the game. Afterwards you force him to sit all the way at his inner tower farming while your team enjoys full map control.