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Build Guide By awwsmm
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Nasus Build Guide By awwsmm
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Spells:
Exhaust
Flash
Ability Order
Soul Eater (PASSIVE)
Nasus Passive Ability
Introduction
THIS GUIDE IS COLOR CODED! YAY!
Green= Read it, it will make you better/ help explain things
Yellow= Should Read, option for the guide if you don't want to follow it exactly.
Blue= Can read, my opinions mainly
Red= Not as important information, story's etc.
Lore
''The Keeper of the Sands, though contemplative, is not to be trifled with.''
Abilities
- Nasus strikes his foe, dealing damage and increasing the power of his future Siphoning Strikes if he slays his target.Nasus's next attack will deal 30/50/70/90/110 ( + ) physical damage. Siphoning Strike permanently gains 3 damage whenever it kills an enemy.
Cost20/25/30/35/40 ManaRange300
- Nasus ages his target, decelerating their movement and attack speeds over 5 seconds. Nasus ages his target, slowing their movement and attack speed by 35% and reducing it further by 3/6/9/12/15% each second for 5 seconds.Cost100/100/100/100/100 ManaRange700
- Nasus unleashes a delayed spirit flame at a location, dealing damage and reducing the armor of enemies who stand on it.After a brief delay, the target area becomes desecrated. Enemies in the area have their armor reduced by 20/25/30/35/40 and are dealt 20/34/48/62/76 (+0.2) magic damage each second. Cost70/85/100/115/130 ManaRange650
- Nasus unleashes a mighty sandstorm that batters nearby enemies. While the storm rages, he gains additional Health and drains nearby enemies' max health and converts it into bonus damage for the duration of the skill.Nasus becomes empowered in the sandstorm for 15 seconds, gaining 300/450/600 health. While the storm rages, he deals 3/4/5 (+0.01)% of nearby enemies' health each second (240 damage max per second) as magic damage and converts it into bonus attack damage.
Cost150/150/150 ManaRange20
- Nasus drains his foe's spiritual energy, giving him a natural 10/15/20% lifesteal. The lifesteal value increments at levels 1,6, and 11.
Runes
Masteries
Items
Siphoning Strike. When you have gotten the sheen for essential damage output grab the Bezerker Greaves, the stack in early game seriously lacks attack speed, in later game you can trade them for ninja tabi to get more survivalbilty. Next get the Emblem of Valour, this is a great item for keeping a push alive and not to mention works great with nasus's passive life steal. Another option instead of this is just a Vampiric Scepter, I only use this for Bloodthirster if their team is not that tanky. After the Emblem of Valour get the Trinity Force, this is when you really start to hurt along with the Phage effect some movement speed and some extra survivability. Now grab the Black Cleaver, with the damage attack speed and the passive their is almost no way you can be stopped. Next grab a extra Vampiric Scepter you just need the extra life steal for survivability. Now it is time for the Zeke's Harbinger about now you should be doing great if not well farm more minions and get further in the stack, if someone has this item already grab Bloodthirster. Now Youmuu's Ghostblade, this is where you will rip and can watch them tremble in your presense. Finally finish things up with the Bloodthirster, the extra attack damage it is great, minion farming bonus and it uses that Vampiric Scepter you've been holding on to!Optional- You can get a Doran's sheild to start if you are not comfortable with a
SheenOptional-
Aegis of the Legion is good but I prefer other items, if anything I would get the Emblem of Valour and then get it before the Black Cleaver replacing one of the final items.Optional-Finish things up with the ghostblade and guardian angel (awsome passives) these items give you more surviability, speed, armor penetration, and of course cools things that spiral around you! There is no need for the extra vampiric cepter.
Tiamat- This is good, but I find that you get all of those splash bonuses but I think that other itmes give much better stats and are much more rewarding for Nasus.Madreds Bloodrazors- Great item if the enemy team is building up lots of health and not too much armor
Sunfire Aegis- Good item if you are getting ripped apart, I would only suggest this if there is very high enemy attack damage and are full of assasins.
Builds
Heavy Attack Damage:
Emblem of Valour
Heavy Ability Power:
If there are alot of caster just take the the heavy DPS stack and give it Mercury Treads instead of
Ninja Tabi
Skill Sequence
Do whatever sequence fits your gameplay- just don't spam your abilities too much.
Summoner Spells
Alternative Spells:
Teleport: Good move for moving in and out of fights, not mentioning it's great for laning Ghost: Great for escapes and chases, I use this spell if I feel like laughing at people who try to chase. Cleanse: Great for getting out of sticky situations, as Nasus your lifesteal is most of your durabilty so use this spell so you can continue to hit hard. Ignite: This is good for getting first blood, reducing heals (just for mundo <3) and well adding some range to finish off some low health loser.Bad spells:
Heal: This spell is good if you are a complete idiot, there are so many better options Revive: The only way I could see anyone really using this spell is if they want to intentionally feed. Clarity: This spell is useless late game and is useless early game too unless if you spam spirit fire and wither alot. Rally: Another useless spell Fortify: Don't use this, though it comes in handy their are more usefull spells. Smite: You want to kill minions with your siphoning strike, not a summoner spell.Clarivoyance: Nasus is extreemly short range so why even use this?
Game Play
Siphoning Strike is what you use to nuke champions and get minions, use it whenever its available. Wither has multiple purposes, not only can it cause a major single target slow but it also lowers the enemies attack speed, use it for both purposes. Spirit Fire is not a ability to spam, having a high mana cost and low damage output it is not for harrasing your enemy. Instead only use it when you are in melee combat, it drops armor considerably. Nasus's ult is awsome, one of the reasons Nasus is one of my favorite champions. Not only does it wipe out health per second of the surrounding enemies it buffs up your stats very high. Together his moves can allow him to take out tanks easy and wipe out enemy DPS. But Mages are the problem, make sure you catch up to them and hit them in melee range, lifesteal is what will win you the battle, along with the durability from your ult. Lastly do not forget your ult will give you more health, so you can use it to escape or live through some serious damage. Don't forget to siphoning strike towers especially when you have your Sheen, it will rip them apart. One game I had 7 tower kills as Nasus just because of how much damage the Siphoning Strike dealt to them.
Team Fights
Hear is the order of abilities in a fight:
(Whenever available)Explanation:
Wither is great for catching up to them and making them weaker in a fight, leading with this spell allows for them to stay in your Spirit Fire for longer. Use Spirit Fire when you have caught up to them and use it in the direction they are going in or right in the center of were they are. Now ult, you mave have taken damage but this will make your enemy pee their pants, they will either run or fight. Now Siphoning Strike them and watch it as it rips apart your opponents.
Pros / Cons
Great Farmer
Good Natrual Panzer Abilities
Awsome slow
Health bonus ult
Cons:
No real ranged abilities
No significant crowd control
People want him to be a tank
Champions with significant range will eat you for breakfast
Why Not Tank?
Crit Chance?
Farming
Siphoning Strike. It has a short cooldown so you can just auto attack and use the ability to get the kill. What really made me realize DPS Nasus is better was when they buffed up his siphoning strike, it has double the minion effect as before, so LAST HIT.What to do if your laning partner is taking literally all of the minions: well you have three options, either stack up siphoning strike and hope for the best, Ask to switch lanes with a ally wich can be risky for your exp, or just jungle for a bit to make the
Siphoning Strike powerfuller and come back into the lane and take the minions.
Summary
awwsmm
Nasus Guide
DPS Panzer Nasus
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