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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.

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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.

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Great guide! Been out of the game for a couple years and this guide helped me go back to playing . That said, I got a couple of questions about stuff I've been trying:
1-What do you think of maxing for hard matchups? I've had moderate success against with it, but I'm not sure if it was worth the delay on stacks.
2-Don't you think can be too limiting for some matchups? I personally like to run early boots against skillshot-heavy champions like or to generally have a better chance to farm and run against short-ranged immobile champions like .

Thanks for the guide anyways!

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Welcome back!

1. 3 points into E is fine but I wouldn't put any more into it so you can still have Q maxed by level 10. It gives more laning power which can sometimes be necessary at the expense of scaling, but you don't want to sacrifice too much scaling as , so 3 points is optimal IMO.

2. Tier 1 Boots generally don't make a huge difference for dodging skillshots. The difference between no Boots and tier 2 boots is huge, but the difference between no boots vs tier 1 boots isn't that great, and you don't want to be rushing tier 2 boots either as it greatly delays CDR (and Ionians aren't worth using). With that in mind, is one of the best runes for since it amounts to essentially 300 extra gold which is great for helping him scale up.

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