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Nasus Top S7, the stacking monstrocity - detailed matchups

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Personal preference. I have no problems CSing with Nasus and I love extra MS on him (especially if you engage from the side or behind on enemy carries or I have to run when I push too deep and enemy try to flank me and zerg me).

If you prefer taking the dmg to minions, by all means do it.

Also I know the guide ain't updated, when I got spare time i actually prefer to play than to write about it. When I get some days off work I'll ship an update to the matchups (which I know is required).

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Thank you very much for your response! :D I see how that could be good either way.

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I didn't see much explanation on why you take Wanderer Over Savagery. Could you go into detail about your mindset in doing so? Love the guide! Thank you. :)

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Very nice guide. However, in addition to the champions you've already listed as outdated, there are some more out-of-date strategies against specific champions. Some examples:

- Maokai's ulti no longer deals AoE, damage, it's more of an initiation tool.
- Shen no longer deals any kind of damage when hitting you with his knife. It is no longer a targeted attack, and he is much more AA oriented.
- Vladimir no longer stacks his E. He charges it instead. It's also blocked by minions.

Other than that, had lots of fun stacking champions by 25. Nice work!

First thing I want to say is this: thank you for making this guide. I started to really enjoy playing League of Legends because of Nasus and today he is my main top and favorite champion, with a fair share of it thanks to this guide as it taught me how to play him.

I noticed that I also tend to pick champions with similar mechanics to his Q, like Sion and Veigar, as I enjoyed Nasus that much. I even tried making a guide on my own hahahaha.

Love the guide. It helped me make an end game monster/bruiser.
Look at adaptive helm in items, gives the same as spirit visage, but the passive is a huge help against ap champs with continuous damage output on their abilities. Lessens the damage and give you a massive push/kill advantage

there are a few HUGE matchups missing, the new Urgot and Kayn for example, there are a couple others missing as well but they do not immediately come to mind. Would love some tips on urgot smashing.

LOVE YOUR GUIDE and i hope you roll out a runes/masteries/items update soon since there have been changes after the guide was written, but SUPER helpful!!

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I too love an ability with 1.1 second cooldown.
Imagine this on URF.

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Because its the lane pressure splitpush Nasus tactic. They also take different runes and start with doran's rings. It works great actually, because it lets Nasus to be dangerous early at a cost of his lategame. So you aren't a pushover early, but the game is not about stacking anymore then. I was thinking about adding it to the guide, but after some thoughts I decided its a completely different way of playing him. This guide is about stacking Nasus not splitpush nasus. That's about it really.

I would have to rename the guide and nearly completely rewrite it if i wanted to have that here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyQ7SYSLs10

Why does Neace use E max Nasus in high elo?

i'm guessing safer farming. I've done it a few times when facing champs like urgot, teemo, kayn, heimerdinger and other champs that can often shove you way behind your tower. you get the gold gains that you need to buy enough items to shove them back and start your stacks.. you will not max your stacks this way, but you will get the items you need in order to get stacks ultra fast. I chewed through a kayn today doing exactly that.

This guide is helping me A LOT, thank you. What do you think of the new doran's ring?

This guide save me about a thousand games feeding my @ss off playing nasus haha! Thanks man, awesome guide.

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Just shipped a big update for Season 7 for chapters 1-11 (didn't touch matchup sections).

It's mostly about taking Triforce instead of Gauntlet, Lethality marks and 2 MS quints. Also taking Randuin again instead of DMP.

Basically my 2nd runeset became the 1st one (and vice versa), also added some quality of life tips and reorganized chapters a little.

Please report if you happen to find any new typos or old descriptions. When it comes to matchup I become a victim of my own wall of text. I'll get to it when I have some time (gotta patch out the Chain Vest into Warden's Mail again WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR - done it before the other way round already like season ago!)

Anyways cheers guys, happy stacking!

Congratulations! this is by far one of the best Post on Mobafire and your review is exemplary. Thank you, it has been of phenomenal help to me. If you read it well, it answers all of your questions. One unrelated question I have is: If you can not play Nasus, is there another champion and do you have a similar review. Thanks. Is there anything else like Nasus. I know Veigar, possibly but I wanted to ask you. Also please comment on building all armor penetration vs damage on marks. I will take your word for 20 % cdr vs 15 %, i have tried to give other 5 to armor penetration (quints), I think as you indicate, time is of essence in stacking and 20 % would probably work better. I have found cleaver a great item as it can decrease armor, add movement speed whenever I am comfortable, Ghostblade is great for movement also. I pick only 1 attack item generally either cleaver or ghost. it does fel bad to waste CDR but results show it otherwise.

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Well, I gotta admit I'm kinda a one trick pony :)
Nasus is my only over 60% winratio champion, Trundle is my 2nd pick around 59%.
They work similary in many cases, have similar weaknesses, but Trundle is way harder to pick up than the doge. Especially that you gotta plan everything around ur ult :P

Anyways any champion can be broken, you just have to feel what you are good at.

As i said many times before i personally prefer AD marks but ARP are also great.
My personal preference lies directly in the early game - it's easier to stack with more AD, it makes u stronger early - when you are the weakest. ARP is obviously better later on and sometimes I regret not taking them (especially vs tanks). On the other hand AD marks helped me win a lot of early exchanges at lvls 4-8, when enemy thought im an easy target and he got it all wrong cause I stacked quick enough to take him down.

My thinking on the matter is simple.
I take AD marks - im helping myself at the phase of the game im weakest - early.
Which indirectly gives me more stacks, cause im not such a pushover and enemy sometimes gotta think twice if I bash him in the face once or twice.

Armor penetration ofc also works. I understand completely if you pick em over AD.