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Nasus Build Guide by

The meme lord - with detailed matchups

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The was nerfed in patch 9.16, is it still good to use on Susan?

Amazing guide! Thanks for making this <3

Why do some people say that Nasus is a mid game champion and falls off late? They said that Nasus gets kited heavily in teamfights.

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He only really falls of If, he manages to get kited. But if the carry gets picked off early then it's literally a free teamfight. is a mid game champion though since he can easily take out objectives if you've been focusing on stacking first, another reason why is a good tree on him.

What is your League of Legends rank?

Its weird theres no ranks included in the guides.. i'm plat myself and discovered one guide i was diving into was written by a silver player.

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Big update today. With 9.10 Riot clearly wants to turn into absolute dog**** (pun intended) to usher a new toplane tank meta, instead of nerfing the few OP champions that use it. So I completely re-made the entire rune section and the rune builds.
is now the cookie-cutter build because it's always good, conqueror moved to situational in tank matchups, and added a grasp build. Yes, grasp, because conqueror used to just be better than grasp against melees but with the huge nerfs it's no longer that clear. I now listed all the viable builds on the front page, pick your own.

any match ups you would consider taking spellbook?

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Anything kite oriented. Teemo, Quinn, Jayce, Vayne, Kennen. Conqueror does absolutely nothing here, and is a big selling point of the spellbook build. Also squishy glass cannons you have no time to stack conqueror on, like Fiora (actually Fiora is the only matchup where I could also recommend grasp to trade back). Vlad too for the ignite. Akali.

Spellbook is the best if you want to fight them. The controversial thing is : do you want to fight them at all? I've been watching a lot of SirhcEz (the twitch streamer) who mains him and he loves to go for max E afk poke against this kind of matchup. I'm adding an build for people who want to play like that, it wins the lane with no risk (but you give up some stacks since you don't max q).

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I dont know man but grasp works so much better for me...

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"It works better for me" is not an argument. You can win games experimenting with a lot of rune setups, still doesn't make them good. If you want to make a comparison bring out damage and healing numbers you get in your game history for both conqueror and grasp, that would actually make sense of this debate.

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When will the winners of the raffle be revealed?

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What do u build against voli? do u start with cloth aromor and potions?

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There aren't that many toplane Volis so I can't tell you for sure, but I think corrupting pot is the best here since sustain is very important when playing passively. You don't want to fight him early, just let him push. Definitely not cloth start, a big part of his damage is magic.

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But he building full ad

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Wasn't your question about starting items? You can't see what he's going to build when you're buying your starting items.
Besides AD Voli is pretty terrible. If he buys AD you can always buy armor when you back.

What do you think about as a starting item to rush my way to ?

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No. as a starting item is way too greedy and not viable. Nobody ever starts cull on anyone. It literally does nothing to help you win your lane, all it does is make money.
On your first back you can grab a cull if you have to play passive in your matchup, but never start with it.

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Really nice guide for exploding people at lategame!

were always a menace if you let him farm enough, this guide explains this very well. However you could balance icon - text size, because it's a bit off with such big icons.

Anyway, keep working on it, I see great potential on it!

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Made the icons a bit smaller just for you. The things you have to do to keep your readers happy it's unbelievable ^^

Yeah, with the +12 buff you can really reach 1k stacks in late without much difficulty and almost oneshot, just be sure to ban otherwise you just can't play :)

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What is with or with and the new ?

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What is with or with and the new ?
Can i build , or if they have a lot of Tanks?

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is terrible. Nasus doesn't need AD, or attack speed, and procing a slow once in melee range is pointless since when you get in melee range the opponent is already slowed by Wither. Item basically does nothing.

Lifesteal items like and ...I get where you're coming from, lifesteal does work on your Q damage and adds to your passive so it's a good stat to have, but they're AD items and Nasus doesn't need AD since none of his skills have AD scalings. A tank item will give you significantly more survivability than the health you can lifesteal with these items. Most of the cost of these items pays for the 80 AD and not the lifesteal ( is only 900 gold). So leave this kind of item to champions that actually scale with AD, like , , etc. If you really want more lifesteal you can run , it's not bad.

items against heavy tank comps : If it was before the introduction of I would have said yes, but now with conqueror you generally can deal with tanks without. is still a fun build if you want to oneshot people with Q.

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