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- Blue Nasus
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Runes: Tank Substain Build
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Yuumi
Champion Build Guide
Hi there, My name is Freddy!
As you may have seen (or if you haven't you can now!) I stream League of Legends on TimnFreddy with my buddy Timmy! I have recently come to love Nasus as a top laner, and for those looking to solo carry I highly encourage you to play him. About 1 month ago I started playing league of legends full time again after a long break. I was Diamond 2 in 2014 and I am currently trying to get Silver to Diamond on EUW using Ivern/Nasus/Wukong/Fiora/Maokai and many more top laners. I invite you all to come and hang out as we struggle our way back into high elo! We stream daily from 19:00 - 23:00 +1GMT (Brussels Time) (Times may vary but this is the general timeframe we aim for). We also have a discord Server where you're welcome to hang out and chat. What can you expect from the channel? A fun, relaxed environment where we try to interact with you guys as much as possible! We also like to celebrate our milestones by doing RP giveaways, so come follow us if you want to get in on that too! How do you enter those giveaways? Just make sure you're a follower on the channel and leave a like/comment on one of our guides! A little more about me: Why did I start streaming? I studied multimedia & 3D animation and I thought this would be a good place to apply my knowledge and techniques, after seeing my stream grow quit large I thought id make a go of it! So my goal is to be partnered with twitch by the end of 2020. I myself may not be the best player but I do strive to have a good time with my buddy Timmy and share a few laughs with my viewers along the way. Thats pretty much it for me! Now let's get into the guide! |
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Hey what's up all my dog loving boys and girls!
Why am I making this guide? I think that an old champion like Nasus has a lot of potential! Especially in low Elo he's an amazing champion to learn the importance of creep score and not surrendering too early! (it also helps that I recently got a new puppy ๐) Let's get started. In this guide I'll cover everything you need to know about Nasus Buckle up, here comes a whole lot of information! |
Late Game Potential: Exceptional Speciality: Never die Why Nasus? Well it's simple, Nasus will be great in all rankings from โฆ๏ธ iron to in diamond ๐. If you are trying to escape elo hell he's the champion that will provide you with the late game capabilities to 1 v 9 a game and make your own way to the top! . Nasus is both a great champion to learn to CS on as well as a fun champion for those who are already CS capping every minion wave. With Nasus you could lose lane and still get the strength needed to dominate late game as long as you continue to Siphoning Strike. A big plus is you really don't need any DPS items other then Trinity Force or Iceborn Gauntlet if you are good at stacking Siphoning Strike |
PASSIVE: Entering combat generates one stack every second for the next 3 seconds. Additional stacks may be generated by re-entering combat after 2 seconds. After reaching 4 stacks, your next basic attack within 6 seconds against an enemy Champion icon champion consumes all stacks to deal 4% of your maximum health in Magic damage bonus magic damage, restore 2% of your Health icon maximum health, and permanently grant 5 bonus health. The empowered attack duration refreshes whenever going in combat. |
PASSIVE: You generate stacks on enemy Turret icon turrets within 600 units, up to 6 after 3 seconds. Your next basic attack against a turret with 6 stacks deals 100 (+ 35% of your maximum health) bonus physical damage. |
PASSIVE: After 12 minutes, gain Armor icon 9 bonus armor and Magic resistance icon 9 bonus magic resistance and increases your total armor and magic resistance by 5%. |
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PASSIVE: At 12 minutes (reduced by 45 seconds per Damage rating takedown), you gain Slightly Magical Boots item Slightly Magical Boots for Gold free. Slightly Magical Boots are identical and can be upgraded as if they were Boots of Speed item Boots of Speed. |
Now Biscuit Delivery may seem odd but the reason behind running this rune is that is provides you even more lane sustain which is everything on Nasus Receive a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will item Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will at 2:00, 4:00 and 6:00. If the inventory is full while receiving a biscuit, the biscuit(s) will appear as soon as a slot in the inventory is available. |
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Now Nasus's Skill sequence is not super hard to say the least but I will try to provide some information as to why and when you will want to use them.
ABILITY SEQUENCE COMBAT |
1 Q |
2 W |
3 E |
4 Q |
5 R |
6 Q |
7 Q |
8 Q |
9 W |
10 Q |
11 E |
12 Q |
13 Q |
14 Q |
15 W |
16 E |
17 Q |
18 Q |
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Wither #2. Spirit Fire #3. Siphoning Strike #4. Fury of the Sands |
I think its easy to see which ability you wanna be spamming. So we start with Wither because its effect will gradually slow > after which we place Spirit Fire on the floor lowing their Armor & Magic resist > Siphoning Striketo get 1 shot in before > Fury of the Sands which will reset your Siphoning Strikeallowing you to recast it almost immediately. After this initial combo you will want to spam out as many Siphoning Strikes as possible and whenever you can make sure Spirit Fire is up to reduce their Resistance to your Siphoning Strike |
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Flash (Gap Closer): On the contrary from what most people believe Flash can be a huge gap closer / Initiate ability for champions like Nasus& Garen due to the fact they don't have an inherent gap closer in their kit this allows them to do so none the less. The reason I say this is so important is that Nasus can easily be kited by players such as Vayne & Ashe or any great Orb Walker / Stutter Stepper |
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Teleport (Lane Presence) : So when you are jungeling of course you will want to swap out the Teleport with a Smite I mean you are not Ivern where I teleport and steal both enemies buffs before 2 min :p but that's in another guide Ivern Teleport But enough about that the reason why you wanna run Teleport is because you will want to be back in lane asap even time to continue your Siphoning Strike |
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Early game Nasus is all about the lane presence. You will want to spend your entire 15 minutes not missing a single Siphoning Strike. Use your Teleport only to get your sheen / Kindlegem and get back into lane to continue your stacking. You will want to keep yourself pushed so make sure you are freezing lane constantly at your tower. For those who do not know what freezing lane is its when you tank a little bit of minions not allowing them to enter your tower range until your new minions have arrived allowing you to stall lane at your side.. Do this properly and there will be no stopping you to stack Siphoning Strike aswel as keep your enemy pushed up open for ganks. (tip: check for enemy team Comp Less CC = Ninja Tabi(unless full ap team off) allot of cc = Mercury's Treads[/I] |
Now I will risk repeating myself quite a bit here because the gameplay of Nasus is pretty similar so I will highlight the differences in bold. So lets start, At about 12 min you will want to have 250 Stacks in a good game - 300 stacks of Siphoning Strike in an excellent one. Its that around 300 stacks with your sheen that you will want to start engaging your enemy solo (check the ability sequence for more info. Now of course you will want to make sure you keep stacking Siphoning Strike but also begin to push you because you want to those tower plates down. At this point you are allowed to use your Teleport to secure a dragon play or force out your lane IF you see the fight can not be won. Never underestimate Nasus's ability to split push. Using your Siphoning Strike on towers together with Demolish will allow you to absolutely Demolish towers :) (see what I did there) now we have reached 17 Min and you should be approaching your 400 - 500 Siphoning Strike mark and its time to start winning. |
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First of all thank you for reading this and making it this far! Its a huge guide but I feel it covers all aspects of Nasus as well as how to climb ranking with him. If you still have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment. Or join us on the stream where we're online every day! where I'll gladly demonstrate in a live game.
In summary Nasus is an amazing champ with a lot of potential. You'll have a great time playing him and will be showing off your power in no time. To end it all off on a fun note, I'll leave you guys with a little Easter egg for making it this far: if you have a duo partner, make them play Yuumi I promise you won't regret it ;).
Once again, if you have any questions or just want to hang out, come join us at TimnFreddy and share the good times! I will be posting a youtube guide asap for you guys to check out!
Thanks again and have a great game!
In summary Nasus is an amazing champ with a lot of potential. You'll have a great time playing him and will be showing off your power in no time. To end it all off on a fun note, I'll leave you guys with a little Easter egg for making it this far: if you have a duo partner, make them play Yuumi I promise you won't regret it ;).
Once again, if you have any questions or just want to hang out, come join us at TimnFreddy and share the good times! I will be posting a youtube guide asap for you guys to check out!
Thanks again and have a great game!
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