Talk:Nasus/@comment-173.9.40.117-20121003123043/@comment-130.234.5.138-20121004113251

Nasus doesn't really need AD items like IE, although BT can work as a 5th or 6th item.

Probably the most important factor in planning builds is to consider what your character receives from his skills and base stats, as well as what he needs. For example Cho'Gath gains health for free, so it's good to build resistances on him to further increase his effective health, while Garen used to gain free resistances, so people would build loads of HP on him.

Nasus gains a crapton of free damage on his Q and the cooldown is so low (especially with max CDR) that you might as well consider it free AD. The problem is that he's a melee champion with no real gap closer, so he really needs to be tanky to do anything, even with the best slow in the game. Otherwise he'll just get stunned/kited/bursted before he can do anything. Building AD is useless because his Q gives so much damage, building AS is useless for the same reason, building crit chance is useless because the Q bonus damage doesnt' crit, but building lifesteal can be good as long as you've the resistances to keep you alive and make every point of health gained count for more.

Also it's hard to farm your Q effectively because everyone knows they need to shut you down or lose hard. That's the reasoning behind Hyfe's build where you start with Philostone+Glacial Shroud and completely Shurelya+Frozen Heart before even looking at Sheen or Trinity Force.