Talk:Nasus/@comment-7511479-20130429052508/@comment-8506165-20130525153159

Well one clear is potentially 60 Q damage (5 big monsters, 10 small), which isn't that hard to manage or at least get close to once you've got it down. Do your first clear, get a couple good ganks, grab a few minions as your reward if your gank gets a kill, and you're golden for Q damage so long as you can keep it up, despite devoting a lot of time to your ganks.

Lane Nasus has to risk harass to get his last-hits and he'll lose some to his own minions or turret, so he'll be lucky to hit 200 bonus by 20 minutes in unless he's really good or the enemy isn't pressuring him at all. Jungle Nasus gets an early edge on Q damage and the more you farm it, the easier it is to farm, so he can devote less time to it and get comparable results, plus he gets gold from ganks while lane Nasus doesn't want to go for kills early game.

tl;dr: get a good head start in the jungle and you don't need to devote all your time to farming.