Talk:Nasus/@comment-4840597-20140902061448

What if you went AP, using Liandry's Torment and Rylais for the survivability, and the incredible synergy with his ultimate. Liandrys adds (Assuming Rylais is in build) 4% current HP damage per second. This is worth UP TO 400 AP worth of damage on Nasus's ult - Naturally this value diminishes as thier hp decreases, however it acts as a reverse execute, which pairs nicely with his max HP damage. Additionally Nasus's ult would slow, giving him a little bit of extra sticking power, which can help if wither is on cooldown / you just wiped out thier carry who you already withered and thier team is like OH LAWD WHY.

Naturally, when a build like this is in question, the first, and most important question is: Why should I choose this build path over ?

Well:

1-More AP = more damage on Nasus ult = indirect gain of additional AD, AD has been shown to work on Nasus, I believe.

2-The slow and additional damage on the Nasus ult from Rylandry's adds a huge amount of teamfight potential, turning him into even more of an imposing badass dog of death.

3-This also synergises very well with Sunfire cape, adding survivability, HP, and additional AoE damage. The Mpen from Liandry's aids the Sunfire damage as well, as a nice extra.

4-The main strength of Nasus is stacking his Q to then totally s**t all over the enemy carries in late game, this remains unaffected, and whatever opportunity cost in the form of AD is recovered in the form of AD from ult damage.

5-The build is mostly the same as a typical Nasus build: A few damage items to compliment Q stacks, followed by tanky items to stay in a fight and beat people up. However instead of a Triforce (which is not very tanky) you will pick up the Rylai's + Liandry's combo (Which gives a not insignificant 700 HP).

Effectively, you are sacrificing one true tank item and spellblade (triforce/iceborn) to get two tanky deeps items that massively aid your magical AoE damage output and sticking power. The spellblade can even still be gotten - infact iceborn is an amazing pick that helps your CC output and is arguably a better choice than the more typical lichbane of the bronzer ap carry vision of AP nasus.

tl;dr Lose a little bit of single target damage, gain true honor in the form of AoE damage like a sir. Will be testing it soon (as in, when friends get online), just don't want to tell people 'You will be 4v5 for 30 minutes AND im going AP.'. You can almost smell the reports from that.