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Vapora Dark In-Depth Top Nasus Guide Season 11

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Im reading through your guide and saying to myself, "that makes sense," "that's reasonable," and then I get to the part where you say "hit your turbo chemtank and run at the adc." Umm, what turbo chemtank? You didnt list it as part of your gearset build... try again, please.

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Good stuff. Pretty straightforward and effective.

This is perhaps the dumbest Nasus build I have seen.

Really nice guide, in-depth, step by step and updated. ;)

Hey Vapora Dark! I saw your guide and I am wondering what you think of Twtv Quaslol's Nasus strategy. He's a Master player and one of the highest ranking Nasus players from what I heard. He basically runs TP + Ghost/Flash and uses this for runes:
-Phase Rush
-Manaflow Band
-Transcendance
-Scorch

Secondary:
-Biscuit of Delivery
-Warp Tonic
-CDR
-Adaptive Damage
-Armor/MR

He also gets E first always and maxes it over Q. This is the basically what he does:
lvl 1: E
lvl 2: Q
lvl 3: E
lvl 4: W

Then the rest is just E>Q>W and obviously upgrade ult whenever you reach the appropriate level. The items are usually Divine Sunderer and then completely situational based on the enemy and how well he does. So what do you think?

Edit: I've been doing this and I've crushed lane most of the time but I lose a lot because of my macro mistakes as well as other factors *winkwink* (If you know you know).

DO NOT TAKE THESE RUNES DO NOT TAKE THIS ADVICE

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It's an unusual way to play Nasus and hard for me to comment on because of it, but it certainly makes your early-game stronger and that can be worth it if you get a large enough lead off of it. I couldn't say whether it's better or worse than the traditional way of playing Nasus though.

If I want to climb in ranked would you recommend the traditional Nasus way of playing? With the way troll players frequent Gold elo which is where I'm at.

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I would advise you to try out both methods and see which one works best for you, there's no more reliable way of knowing.

thanks for this build man its good ;p

Is Grasp actually still viable at higher elo's? Sure, at lower elo it most likely works cuz of your opponent not punishing you too severely for the trade but they pretty much always do at the higher elo's. And that's just for melee champs, ranged tops are almost definitely ain't gonna be worth the trade in either low or high elo. Wouldn't something like Spellbook be a better choice for main rune? For secondary runes you can always just switch out and in whichever runes you need from Resolve for the particular matchup.

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Spellbook is definitely better at higher Elos, but not by a huge margin. And it's not really scenarios where you'd be getting punished for going for trades, but rather scenarios where the enemy is forcing trades against you to stop you farming and you're forced to trade back unless you want to take free damage. Grasp makes those trades you're forced to take a lot better.

git

This is outdated. Why does the title say season 11?

What about Turbo Chemtank? Do you think it's a viable pick into cc/slow team comp?

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I feel the answer is most likely not, but you never know. I haven't tried it or seen anyone else try it yet.

This is a great guide and all but in the guide it said that grasp of the undying is the best rune on nasus i just wanna know why Kleptomancy is the better rune if its better?

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I had at the start of the season when I hadn't had time to realize how strong was. It's weaker now after the nerf but it's still the best keystone on because of how much free **** you get when you spam in fights.