Talk:Nasus/@comment-5225189-20120709093107/@comment-4834593-20120711082016

You can't win vs Nasus.

This is what he does:

Against AD tops: Start cloth armor and 5 health pots. Eat the harras, take a health pot when needed, also use life steal to get life from harras back. Buy Ninja Tabi on first recall, then either go Glacial Shroud, or, if you want the mana regen, Chalice of Harmony (oh, the number of top lanes that item has won for me on the weirdest champions...). After that, Trinity Force (Sheen > Phage > Zeal), then whatever tank items you want to build. Frozen Heart, Force of Nature, Warmog's, Randuin's Omen, Thornmail, whatever, maybe a Frozen Mallet for reliable slow. Also replace Ninja Tabi for Mercury Threads. Maybe Atma's can also be nice on him, now that I think about it... Ult and a Warmogs (and maybe Frozen Mallet) give A LOT of health, so it'd be a nice bonus, while also giving armor, and increasing your crit chance a bit (no really, crits are nice. Last game, with only a Trinity Force and pure defense items (but also with Nashor, however), I critted 1145 on a minion with my Q 30 minutes ingame) to 30%. Every third Q (something around that) takes 40% of a carry's life bar, instead of 25-30%.

Against AP tops: Start boots and 3 pots. Again, eat the harras and take a health pot when needed, and use your life steal. Buy Chalice of Harmony on first recall, Mercury Threads on second recall. After that, go Trinity Force, or at least Sheen, buy magic resist (something heavy like Force of Nature) if needed, otherwise just situational after that Trinity Force is done. Just the same as against AD tops.