Talk:Nasus/@comment-27084999-20151228191340/@comment-4460132-20160107115055

Well it is really really REALLY tricky to judge a champion, role and build for only one game, even more if you don't take into account the whole environment ("meta") where you make your statements as a lot of things change through patches (for the specific champion, the others he is interacting with and the whole map, jungle, towers, ambiant gold, items and so on...), not even speaking about players inner gameplay evolution overall.

There are multiple reasons that made Nasus a god-jungler before and makes him sadly "meh" actually. Stonewall008 sums it up nicely in a recent video.

On an other hand i came here to point out something interesting for "out meta" Nasus (for top role just check out SirhcEz's builds (or search for him on youtube and check any of his smurfs accounts).

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The thing i wanted to talk about in the first place is : Nasus Support. It seems to be a thing as i've seen in game a week ago, working surprisingly well... and now i found out a reddit post about it just today.

The builds i've seen doesn't seem to be "that" refined and mine will not totally be either because i don't want to make a specific runepage for it, but the core seems to abuse thunderlords (12/18/0), along with the Spirit Fire (E) harass and the (ab-)use of Frost Queen's Claim item.

This combo gives you potent CC & harass on a champion that most people don't think he would ever do, giving as a plus a nice element of surprise and (for off-meta picks aficionados) a good way to tilt even further the ennemy team while making them eat dirt.

For the runes i'll go for my "classic AP support" runes : armor quints, hybrid pen marks, health seals, ap quints. Masteries : "classic AP support 12/18/0" as well.

For the items, along with the usual rush for FQC & sightstone, i guess the offensive build could for pen boots, rylai's & liandry but we must keep in mind that it could go a different (more tank oriented) way if needed.