Talk:Poppy/@comment-5856583-20130626203141/@comment-4167645-20130629074915

Then why the reasoning of Poppy's cost being high in comparison to Nasus'? It certainly doesn't do a tremendous BOOM damage, but rather is very similar to the damage that Nasus does unless the opponent stacks pure giants belts.

No matter how badly harassed a Nasus would get at least 10 creeps through Q and hit the breakeven point with Poppy's already. So from then onwards, every 20 mana siphoning strike used on an enemy is exactly like being hit by Poppy, or more if he powers it up even more. The cooldown on his Q also scales exactly like Poppy's.

So if Poppy is doing tremendous damage with Q, Nasus is doing tremendous damage with a much cheaper Q.