Talk:Nasus/@comment-5557556-20131124212119/@comment-6061249-20131126153851

It doesn't means that his power isn't moving. As the game and meta both change, some picks can get better or worse.

As far as i have noticed, most of the current popular top lane picks are mobile lane bullies (Riven, Jax, Nidalee, Lee Sin), which are rather countered by Nasus, because this kind of lane bullies exceeds at pointing out enemy laner's lack of sustain and dueling, or - in some cases - noobstomping. So yeah, he is now quite dominating, because Nasus simply does not cares about them. He has sustain. Strong sustain. And an awesome mobility and AS reduction, which also grants advantage in duels.

Some time ago, when some other picks were in favor, he just oftenly was stomped in lane. Champions which are made for real lane bullying, not only pointing out lacks of sustain (Renekton, Darius, Yorick) and were actually able to wreck through this lifesteal. Second kind of those champions were ranged pokers - Teemo or Jayce, no one else. They both could successfully poke Nasus for free and all the time, breaking through his lifesteal and didn't had to duel - both of them have good escape mechanism.

Other lanes also changed and shifted from "tough and strong" to "mobility + atomic nuke without defenses". I rather rarely see tanky junglers - most of them get one defense item until late game and build up rest with damage. Most of season two junglers were walking walls of steel, giving Nasus low chances to grab kills, while current teams are mostly made of double-hit carries.

Not to mention, when everything gets nerfed, some considered before as weaker champions get their attention, simply because they get better than previous ones.

Maybe some item changes made it as well.