Some impressions from my foray into E, Spirit Fire, max Nasus.

The point of the build is, IMO, twofold.

1) It lets you lane and possibly have kill pressure in some match-ups that are impossible if you are trying to Q stack.
2) A Q stacking Nasus is stuck wherever he is stacking, which can lead to the "never leaves Top lane Nasus syndrome" that prevents many Nasus players from impacting the rest of the map. E max for wave clear alleviates this problem by giving you a way to quickly clear a wave.

To be clear, you do stack, you just don't prioritize it over lane... Read More

I've been doing some work trying to understand the game beyond just clearing your own jungle.

In most games on Blue side you will start Red to get a leash from your Bot lane. Then you will do Wolves and then Blue. Gets you level 3 and gets your two buffs. And on most viable champs it leaves you in a healthy enough position to gank, countergank, or invade.

In probably 75% of my games on Blue side if I drop a Stealth Ward ward in the tri-bush after blue I will save my Top laner from getting ganked and also be in position to countergank. If however, I do Gromp before Blue I... Read More

Just one of those things I've observed:

If you gank Bot lane early and pick-up a double kill and are still relatively healthy, one option is to try and take a Dragon. However, I've found if your Mid doesn't have priority and you don't know where the enemy jungler is or you know the enemy jungler is on the Dragon side of the map, you are probably in for a mess, especially if their Top laner has Teleport available and your Top laner doesn't (or isn't savvy enough to follow). One of the reasons it gets messy is the death timers are so short at that stage of the game it is even... Read More

There are several ways through the jungle this season. So far on any mana based junglers I've tried the smoothest place to start for a full clear is Blue Buff. If you go Blue - Gromp - Wolves, this usually lets you put two points in a damage ability which increases the efficiency of taking Raptors especially if you have any AoE to your clear.

So the entire clear looks like Blue Smite > Gromp > Wolves > Raptors > Red Smite > Krugs. Look to gank. If I break the route anywhere it is usually to skip Krugs, which can take quite a while for many junglers to finish.... Read More

That is picked up or reinforced.

Wards - sometimes don't stop to kill them. You can click on them to see who placed them (actually need to try this)

Vision wins games by letting your team play aggressively when ahead or to make picks or threaten alternative objectives that you need to get back in the game when behind.

If you are getting pincered attack the weak side.

If you are otherwise even take fights where you have a numbers advantage.

Knowing where the enemy jungler is a way of knowing you have a numbers advantage.

Invade the jungle where you have pushed lanes.... Read More