Talk:Nasus/Strategy/@comment-9280387-20131211160737

Something people might not have considered.... AP Nasus. I've never tried it top lane, and i might actually be easier there. Nasus, like Vladimir, are fairly weak until about lv 9 when their first ability is maxed comepletely. So, try to avoid dying before that time, and then it becomes impossible to trade with you after that point. AP Nasus's strategy is to be as much of an asshole as possible, and harass them so much they have to leave lane. This allows you to continue to farm easily as well as going "ho ho ho" and talking about sand and dogs, and what not. Your whole goal is to push towers, and farm until you have these 3 core items. Rabadon's, Abyssal Scepter, and Lichbane. Nasus is a bit weird until you get some ap and lichbane, his q is pretty much just used to make use of his passive in short bursts, but you can continue to farm it, but due to not maxing it earlier levels your charging of it is slowed. Once you have lichbane however, it's given a nice ap ratio, (due to the lichbane passive) and hits about 80% as hard if not the same as a normal top nasus. AP nasus is nice because you can wither a target for your team, pop ghost and run in as your massive ult dot just literally melts everyone, in addition to your aoe damage from your e. For more survivabilitiy you can grab sunfire and then a zhonyas as this will give you massive dots and in addition to abyssal will give you more survivability and your dots will persist through zhonyas allowing you to be similar to fiddle or karthus, running in and zhonyasing after they turn on you. MAKE SURE YOUR TEAM CAN FOLLOW UP LOL. Because you are not the master of death, or an op scarecrow. I dont know about soloq but for norms most people dont know what they're doing so you can literally do whatever you want (I was forced to shyvana mid vs a ryze and still carried.)