Talk:Nasus/@comment-69.158.113.205-20120820235512/@comment-130.234.5.137-20120822161520

Acceptable amounts of Q stacks depend on the situation. Normally having +300dmg by 20 minutes is a sign you'll be useful when team fights start, but sometimes you simply have to leave your lane early in order to win the game. Some of my most succesful Nasus games have been ones where I've gotten some lucky kills early on by teleporting to bot lane for a double kill or having a really helpful jungler and carried the game early on despite having very low Q dmg.

Nasus is rarely picked because he's very hard to play at higher levels (let's say 1400+ elo) where people know how dangerous he can get and focus on shutting him down ASAP. This isn't an issue at lower levels of play, but he isn't popular because most players try to imitate high skill level players like pros and streamers, even though the decisions they make are due to factors that don't exist at lower elos. I'd go as far as to say that Nasus is one of the best champs to climb out of sub-bronze elo with just because nobody down there is going to know how to deny properly and he can easily carry games solo with enough farm.