Talk:Nasus/@comment-5009341-20120622002050/@comment-71.239.99.171-20120624223343

Karthus actually doesn't have a weak laning phase. Sure, he has a passive laning phase, and can rarely kill his lane opponent, but his Q is a 875 range spell with a low mana cost, and returns most of the cost from his E. Sure, Karthus can be zoned from his auto-attack range, but he can sit very far back and farm with skittles all day, allowing him to get that ridiculous late game strength. However, Nasus is required to use a spell that has a higher cooldown at earlier ranks and costs enough mana to eventually run OOM AT MELEE RANGE to get the late-game power everyone knows and loves. He is easily kited, as he doesn't have any speed-boosts or gap closers, just a single-target (albeit powerful) slow. Also, he has no harass in lane as he is required to use his Q on minions whenever possible, while his E is a low damage, high-cooldown DoT that is really only used for the armor reduction to make his Q's stronger. Until level 11 or so, Nasus is just a walking bulls-eye, and if the enemy team capitalizes on it, he'll suck, but if they don't, he'll carry.