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Recommended Items
Runes: Fleet Footwork (Most matchups)
+8 Ability Haste
+10-180 Bonus Health
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Ghost
Teleport
Items
Ability Order Default
Soul Eater (PASSIVE)
Nasus Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Sylas
He is your permaban. If you get him on the enemy team, dodge... please. Ask your top laner to swap. If you can't, then I am so sorry but you will have a hard time. Sylas will turn you from a dog into a cute puppy that obeys his owner. And Sylas is your owner. Don't try to do anti-heal vs him. Light up some candles if you have to. Unless your jungler is extremely fed, don't let him gank you.
Zilean
Gives you insane movement speed while you slow whoever your chasing. He resurects you if you die. Probably the best champion to play with (along with Karma).
Zilean
Gives you insane movement speed while you slow whoever your chasing. He resurects you if you die. Probably the best champion to play with (along with Karma).
Champion Build Guide
I've been playing Nasus since 2015, and been playing Nasus Mid Only since 2021.
I have been wanting to make a Nasus Mid guide for a while, and I finally managed to borrow some time to do it :D
I believe most people nowadays want knowledge to be delievered in the fastest and cleanest ways possible. So this guide is written with the objective to keep information at a minimum, but at the same time, as In-depth as possible. I will organize information on what you need to do and why you need to do it, in that order. I hope this turned out well.
[OUTDATED]If you prefer watching a video instead of reading, here's my guide in video format [OUTDATED]:
Please feel free to use the comments to suggest improvements to this guide if you feel like I can explain any topic in less words than what I currently have.
All the guide changes will be noted in the "Guide Patch Notes" Section at the end of the guide.
Thank you for reading this and if you have any questions either comment on this guide or ask on my stream so I can answer you faster.
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Simple Pros/Cons on Nasus Mid:
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Main Rune Setup
Fleet Footwork![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Triumph Best rune out of the other 2 in this branch. ![]() |
Legend: Haste Takedowns give you Basic Ability Haste up to 15. Very helpful, specially early on. |
Last Stand More damage when you're low. Good for close fights. You will have lots of them. |
Second Wind Very good for getting health back early which is your main priority. |
Revitalize Stacks well with your other healing sources, eventually helping you more than ![]() ![]() |
Ability Haste |
Health Scaling |
Tenacity/Slow Resist |
Secondary Rune Setup
Press the Attack Take this Rune Setup if you know what you're doing and you know how to play ![]() ![]() |
Triumph Best rune out of the other 2 in this branch. ![]() |
Legend: Haste Takedowns give you Basic Ability Haste up to 15. Very helpful, specially early on. |
Last Stand More damage when you're low. Good for close fights. You will have lots of them. |
Second Wind Very good for getting health back early which is your main priority. |
Revitalize Stacks well with your other healing sources, eventually helping you more than ![]() ![]() |
Ability Haste |
Health Scaling |
Tenacity/Slow Resist |
List of Summoner Spells
Ghost![]() ![]() |
Flash![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Teleport![]() |
Spell combinations
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Full Movement Speed Build
Doran's Shield Best starter item. Got buffed last season. Cloth Armor and/or Beads are not good to build anymore. |
Your goal is to recall when you have 900G/1000G/1100G to buy



First back if matchup is Tiny/Minor/Even:
Sheen Best item for Nasus currently. I've tried other builds without Sheen, and nothing is comparable to the damage this boi gives. |
First back if matchup is Major:
Ionian Boots of Lucidity Best boots for Nasus. Gives you a lot of Ability Haste and Summoner Spell Haste. Build these boots if the enemy team doesn't have much CC and is not full AD. |
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Mercury's Treads Build these boots if the enemy team has a lot of CC. It gives you 30% Tenacity and you can have up to 60% Tenacity if you build ![]() ![]() |
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Boots of Swiftness Alternative boots that you can build. I've seen some players in the Nasus community build this. I've tried them, they are nice. Personal preference if you want this over ![]() |
1st Item
Trinity Force The best item on Nasus currently. I've tested different items like ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2nd Item
Hullbreaker Build this if you get ahead in your lane. Every 5th attack will give you good damage for towers and champs. Best used while split pushing. Keep in mind that having ![]() |
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Force of Nature Your main Magic Resist item if there is no situations where you need other items like ![]() ![]() |
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Frozen Heart Build this if the enemy team comp has attack speed based champs (E.g: Jinx, Master Yi, Irelia). Insanely cheap, gives mana and a huge chunk of armor. |
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Sterak's Gage Build this if the enemy team comp has heavy Croud Control (E.g: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Dead Man's Plate Your main Armor item if there is no situations where you need other items like ![]() ![]() |
Don't forget to upgrade your boots:
Crimson Lucidity Worth the upgrade in my opinion. More Ability Haste, good passive that comes with it. I'd say go for it. |
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Chainlaced Crushers I would personally save this upgrade for last item. I don't feel like it's worth the passive and stats you get. Maybe if it would give more Tenacity which unfortunately is not the case. |
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Swiftmarch Very worth upgrading ![]() ![]() |
3rd Item
Force of Nature Build this if you already have ![]() -You need anti-healing. You build ![]() -You need anti-crit. You build ![]() -The team is Full AD. You build ![]() |
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Dead Man's Plate Build this if you already have ![]() -You need anti-healing. You build ![]() -You need anti-crit. You build ![]() -The team is Full AP. You build ![]() |
If you bought


4th Item
Jak'Sho, The Protean Build this if you already have ![]() ![]() Full AD: ![]() ![]() ![]() Full AP: ![]() ![]() |
Last Item
Sterak's Gage If you already have this item, check if you're missing ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Other Items
Armor Items
Dead Man's Plate Your first armor item if you need one. Check if you don't need Anti-heal/Anti-Crit or ![]() |
Frozen Heart If you need Mana or have less than 40 Ability Haste or if the enemy team comp has attack speed based champs. |
Thornmail If you need Anti-Heal. Don't finish the item until it's your last. Buy only ![]() |
Randuin's Omen If you need Anti-Crit. |
Magic Resist Items
Force of Nature Main item if you need MR. It's better when combined with ![]() |
Spirit Visage 2nd MR item if you need it. |
Kaenic Rookern Another MR item if you need more. |
Abyssal Mask If you have a fed AP champion in your team. It will reduce enemy's magic resistance and make them do more damage. You also get more MR for each enemy with reduced MR. |
Others
Warmog's Armor You can build Warmog's as a replacement for ![]() ![]() |
Experimental Hexplate A good item when combined with the full movement speed build. You can replace ![]() |
Black Cleaver You can do this if you're fed and need some extra damage. Black Cleaver helps you with a bit of armor pen which is nice. |
Spear of Shojin Good item when combined with ![]() |
Fimbulwinter I see some Nasus Mains do this. I think ![]() ![]() |
Blade of the Ruined King Build this if you're smurfing in Plat or below. It's fun :) |
Press the Attack/Fleet Footwork Setup
The First 10 minutes will decide your laning phase.
First: Don't touch a single minion besides last hitting with your

If you are running

Second: Get 100 stacks in 10 minutes. The higher the better. 200 Stacks at 10 minutes means you can kill most of your matchups as soon as you have

Third: Don't leave mid until you have




Fourth: Don't let your jungler gank you before level 6. It will go wrong 90% of the time. If you still get ganked, use


Fifth: If you are low HP, it's better to be safe and recall, even if you don't have enough gold to buy anything useful. You will lose XP and Gold of course, but you don't give a kill to your enemy mid/jungler. With the new season 2024 map changes, Mid seems easier to dive now. Keep that in mind.
Recall at 900 Gold so you buy




Do you have Sheen built? 100 Stacks? Check your matchup in the Threats Section of this guide. You might be ready to kill them. If you do, wait until they do the same mistake, then kill them again.
If you're ahead, look for fights outside of mid. Look at other lanes, check if they need help. Fight for objectives. Always keep an eye on your stacks and make sure you hit 400 by 20 minutes.
If the lane didn't go well for you, keep playing safe under tower and wait for some time. As soon as you see the opportunity, move to a sidelane and start scaling there. When my laning phase doesn't go well, I see myself swapping with my botlane most of the times. Same thing could happen to you.
Lethal Tempo/Fleet Footwork Setup
Mid/Late Game will depend if you got ahead vs your matchup or not.
If you did get ahead, stop for a second and take a look at the enemy team.
Is someone insanely fed? Do you have a 10/0 Jinx in botlane? If so, time for you to start building against them. Try to limit test yourself into killing them, you most likely can, specially against ADCs. Save your

If your laning phase didn't go well, then it's time to start split pushing. If you brought



Focus on 1 lane at a time, for example, choose Top, and try to take the tier 2 tower. Look at your map every 5-10 seconds, look for the enemy team, if most of them are missing, they are most likely coming for you. Fall back, recall if it's not safe, if it's just 2/3 people coming, fall back to a bush and when they leave, go back to split pushing.
After you take tier 2 tower of that lane, try to take tier 3 + inhibitor. If you're struggling, switch to another lane, apply the same principle.
Remember, make sure you always have




Late Game
For late game, it depends on what elo you're in. If you're at Platinum or below, I think Nasus is the strongest champion in your game. If you're at Emerald+, I think the opposite. I personally think Nasus falls off past 30 minutes. So the only thing I can advise you is to keep your focus on objectives. Elder Dragon and Baron are your game winners.
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[25.S1.1]:
-Added new Summoner Spells section to the guide;
-Added new piece of text for the upgraded boots in the Itemization section;
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-Beide the above changes, most of the guide stayed the same, with some slight changes on when Hullbraker should be built.
Removed all previous Guide Patch Notes. New Season, clean guide :)
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