Talk:Nasus/@comment-71.188.2.7-20120723063140/@comment-130.234.181.219-20120725100750

Got trolled and wrote a long reply, but the wiki ate it. -_-

Lazy bullet point version:

1. Denying Nasus isn't that easy. He can lane completely safely against about 1/4 of the common top picks, will almost certainly lose against 1/4, and can do well depending on skill level against the remaining 1/2.

2. His ganks are actually very good. W is the best slow in the entire game and your core items (Shurelya+Frozen Heart) are great for tower diving. Also most people play Nasus with teleport, so you can get an easy double kill from bot lane if the enemy pushes.

3. Even a Nasus with a terrible early game can be useful later on. The slow can totally shut down the enemy AD's damage, and just rushing in with your ult on can be devastating if you're tanky enough. He's certainly better than most champs that get shut down early and arguably some bruisers that do ok in the laning phase.

4. Nasus is admittedly kinda problematic because the current meta favours early aggression and snowballing, but late game champs are totally viable if your team knows how to play it safe early on.