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Nasus
Patch 16.2.1
TopDifficulty
Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Reach 400+ stacks by 20 minutes and split push. Force the enemy to send 2-3 people to stop you, then use to either kill them or survive long enough for your team to take objectives.
Playstyle
Survival-based infinite scaler. Your goal is to ignore the enemy laner, stack your , and eventually become a raid boss that can 1v1 anyone and 2-shot towers.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Infinite scaling through stacks makes you a ticking time bomb
- +High natural sustain from allows you to stay in lane after bad trades
- + is one of the strongest point-and-click CCs for shutting down ADCs
- + provides massive survivability and double DPS via cooldown reduction
Weaknesses
- -Extremely weak early game—most top laners can bully you off the wave
- -Highly susceptible to kiting and crowd control if is cleansed
- -No gap-closers or dashes in your kit; relies entirely on MS and slows
- -Mana hungry in the early levels if you spam to farm
Abilities
Provides free Life Steal. This applies to your damage too. If you're low, a cannon minion to get a massive burst of health back. Don't leave lane just because you're at 30% HP.
Your bread and butter. It's an auto-attack reset. Always last hit with this to gain permanent damage. In fights, stand on your to make this hit harder against shredded armor.
A massive slow that increases over time and ruins Attack Speed. Use this on the enemy's primary auto-attacker. It's also your only way to escape a gank—Wither the jungler and walk away.
Creates a zone that deals magic damage and shreds a percentage of the enemy's Armor. Do not use this to poke unless necessary; use it to shred tanks during an all-in or to clear waves under tower.
Gives you instant Health, Resistances, and halves the cooldown of . Use this the moment an all-in starts, not when you're almost dead, to maximize the AOE burn and spamming power.
Teamfight Role
Frontline Juggernaut/Anti-Carry
Your job is to walk at the enemy ADC or mid-laner and click on them. Stand in the middle of the fight with active to soak damage and shred armor with for your own ADC.
If your own ADC is the only one fed, stay back and use to peel the enemy divers off of them instead of diving.
Combos
Standard Reset
Auto-attack ->
The most basic and essential combo. Use immediately after an auto lands to maximize damage per second.
The Run Down
-> -> -> Auto ->
Slow them with , drop under them for armor shred, then pop to spam while they are trapped and vulnerable.
Bush Bait
(in bush) -> ->
Use the armor shred from hidden in a bush to surprise an enemy walking by. The prevents them from escaping the zone.
Flash Execute
-> Flash -> Auto ->
Use to ensure they can't dash away, then Flash-Auto- to finish off a low-health target trying to play safe.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 6 | health and CDR makes you suddenly able to win 1v1s you were losing at level 5. |
| Level 9 | is typically maxed here, significantly reducing its base cooldown for faster stacking and trading. |
| Level 11 | Rank 2 increases your tankiness and burn damage significantly during mid-game skirmishes. |
| Level 16 | Rank 3 makes you nearly impossible to kill in a 1v1 or 1v2 scenario if you have decent stacks. |
Tips & Tricks
- • shreds a percentage of armor; it's much more effective against tanks than squishies.
- •You can use to reduce the damage of champions like Jax or Tryndamere significantly by slowing their Attack Speed.
- • life steal works on towers if you have certain runes, but the damage always helps you sustain off minions.
- •If you are being zoned, use to last hit multiple minions at once to keep your gold income up.
- • gives you bonus Attack Range; use this to hit enemies over small walls or through thin terrain.
- •Always check your stack count. If you have under 200 stacks at 15 minutes, stop fighting and just farm.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Spamming early game→You will run out of mana and push the wave, leaving you trapped far from your tower where you are easily killed.
- ✕Using too late→You miss out on the bonus health and CDR needed to win the fight, often dying before the transformation completes.
- ✕Greeding for stacks on risky minions→You take 300 damage from the enemy laner just to get 3 stacks, eventually forcing you out of lane.
- ✕Forgetting to auto-attack reset→You lose a massive amount of burst damage that could have secured a kill.
- ✕Fighting outside of your zone→You lose the armor shred benefit, making your do significantly less damage against armored targets.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached