Talk:Nasus/@comment-4499945-20131026161817/@comment-8506165-20131103011849

"Yes, for fifteen seconds every two minutes.  Meanwhile, Bork grants scaling on-hit, attack speed, lifesteal, and a great pursuit/peel active.  And get this: Nasus's armor shred makes Bork's on-hit damage even stronger. Bork is an excellent item for any bruiser."

15 seconds every two minutes, yeah. And Nasus never ever builds any CDR nor would he have any incentive to do so against a team with loads of health stackers. 15 seconds of every 72 is more realistic, be honest. Or in other words - even if you fought Nasus constantly for several minutes, he'd be shredding your max health 20% of the time. Obviously, it's more realistic to assume that fights will be decided one way or another before long if Nasus has used his ult, so... maybe 60% of the time you actually fight him, being really conservative?

Anyone who stacks pure health against Nasus just gives him more AD during his ult and they're going to be feeling the full pain of a 300-farm Siphoning Strike if they've not built armor, thus BotRK isn't really needed. If they have built armor and thus not as much health, Last Whisper is far more attractive than BotRK for increasing your damage, assuming the enemy team aren't idiots that obligingly stand in your Spirit Fire for you to AA them.

This is all ignoring the fact that BotRK has anti-synergy with Nasus' ult in that he burns through a large chunk of their max health during it, rendering Blade's on-hit effect less effective. Ravenous Hydra, on the other hand, synergises with Nasus' passive, as his passive lifesteal is applied to the passive and active on Hydra, making him much more survivable than if he had BotRK, and isn't diminished in effectiveness by his ult (in fact, the AD his ult grants makes the passive and active more effective).

So yeah, BotRK God-Tier and Hydra trash-tier? Not quite.