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Nasus Build 26.22

Every last hit Nasus lands with Q banks permanent bonus damage, so his next swing always hits a little harder than the one before. Wither is the piece people forget, shutting off a carry's movement and attack speed for a full fight. Middle of the pack at 49.7% and sliding, he plays a patient game the whole lobby has to plan around. Farm the early game, land the slow on the right head, and he becomes a threat nobody itemized for.

#74 of 135 top this patch · 3.9k games

Win rate49.7%−0.6Games3.9kPick rate3.4%Ban rate8.4%Last 8 patches−0.2 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 24%AD 74%True 1%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 49.7% WR

Spells

Ghost + Teleport Start

Ionian Boots of Lucidity SkillsQ›W›E Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

AatroxTopB50.5%AhriMidA51.2%AkaliMidB49.4%AkshanMidC49.0%AlistarSupportS52.4%AmbessaTopC47.8%AmumuJungleC49.4%AniviaMidB49.9%AnnieMidA51.4%ApheliosAD CarryB49.5%AsheAD CarryC48.9%Aurelion SolMidA51.8%AuroraMidA52.1%AzirMidD47.8%BardSupportC48.9%Bel'VethJungleS52.7%BlitzcrankSupportS52.4%BrandSupportC48.7%BraumSupportA50.8%BriarJungleB49.7%CaitlynAD CarryC48.0%CamilleTopA51.0%CassiopeiaMidB49.9%Cho'GathJungleA51.4%CorkiAD CarryB50.7%DariusTopB50.5%DianaJungleB49.8%Dr. MundoTopB50.8%DravenAD CarryA51.4%EkkoMidA52.1%EliseJungleB50.5%EvelynnJungleA51.4%EzrealAD CarryD46.5%FiddlesticksJungleB50.4%FioraTopA51.7%FizzMidB50.1%GalioMidB49.6%GangplankTopA52.1%GarenTopB50.6%GnarTopC48.9%GragasTopB49.9%GravesJungleB49.6%GwenTopB50.0%HecarimJungleB50.6%HeimerdingerTopB50.6%HweiMidS52.6%IllaoiTopB49.5%IreliaTopB50.0%IvernJungleB50.6%JannaSupportB50.6%Jarvan IVJungleC49.2%JaxTopB50.2%JayceTopC47.9%JhinAD CarryB50.5%JinxAD CarryA51.5%K'SanteTopD47.7%Kai'SaAD CarryB49.5%KalistaAD CarryB50.0%KarmaSupportC48.1%KarthusJungleB49.7%KassadinMidA51.3%KatarinaMidS52.8%KayleTopA51.6%KaynJungleB50.3%KennenTopA52.0%Kha'ZixJungleC49.3%KindredJungleA51.4%KledTopB50.4%Kog'MawAD CarryA52.0%LeBlancMidA51.7%Lee SinJungleC48.7%LeonaSupportA51.5%LilliaJungleA52.0%LissandraMidB50.1%LockeMidB49.5%LucianAD CarryB49.4%LuluSupportB49.9%LuxSupportC49.2%MalphiteTopA51.1%MalzaharMidB50.1%MaokaiSupportA52.2%Master YiJungleB50.0%MelMidD47.4%MilioSupportB49.9%Miss FortuneAD CarryB50.2%MordekaiserTopA51.1%MorganaSupportA51.3%NaafiriJungleA50.8%NamiSupportB49.7%NasusTopB49.7%NautilusSupportB49.8%NeekoSupportC48.1%NidaleeJungleA51.8%NilahAD CarryS53.5%NocturneJungleB49.8%Nunu & WillumpJungleA51.6%OlafTopB49.6%OriannaMidD46.7%OrnnTopA51.0%PantheonTopB50.4%PoppySupportS53.0%PykeSupportB50.2%QiyanaJungleD47.5%QuinnTopC48.0%RakanSupportS52.7%RammusJungleS53.0%Rek'SaiJungleA51.0%RellSupportS52.5%Renata GlascSupportB50.8%RenektonTopB49.4%RengarJungleC48.8%RivenTopB50.0%RumbleTopC48.1%RyzeMidD47.0%SamiraAD CarryB49.5%SejuaniJungleA51.0%SennaSupportB50.8%SeraphineSupportB49.7%SettTopA51.3%ShacoJungleA51.0%ShenTopS53.3%ShyvanaJungleA51.7%SingedTopA51.2%SionTopA51.2%SivirAD CarryB50.6%SkarnerJungleA51.2%SmolderAD CarryA50.9%SonaSupportA51.7%SorakaSupportA51.0%SwainSupportA50.9%SylasMidC48.3%SyndraMidB50.1%Tahm KenchSupportB49.7%TaliyahJungleB50.8%TalonJungleA51.1%TaricSupportB50.8%TeemoTopA50.9%ThreshSupportB50.5%TristanaAD CarryB50.3%TrundleTopC48.2%TryndamereTopB49.9%Twisted FateMidB50.6%TwitchAD CarryB50.1%UdyrJungleB49.7%UrgotTopA50.9%VarusAD CarryC48.4%VayneAD CarryA51.4%VeigarMidC48.7%Vel'KozSupportA51.6%VexMidS53.1%ViJungleB49.7%ViegoJungleB49.5%ViktorMidB49.7%VladimirMidA51.0%VolibearTopB50.1%WarwickJungleA51.9%WukongJungleB50.8%XayahAD CarryS53.3%XerathMidA51.6%Xin ZhaoJungleA51.7%YasuoMidC48.7%YoneMidC49.1%YorickTopD47.6%YunaraAD CarryB49.4%YuumiSupportD47.7%ZaahenTopB50.1%ZacJungleB50.7%ZedMidB49.2%ZeriAD CarryA51.7%ZiggsAD CarryA51.2%ZileanSupportA50.9%ZoeMidA51.1%ZyraSupportA51.0%

LoL ClassicSee how Nasus was built in the classic eraNasus Classic Build

When Is Nasus Strongest?

The strong window is the later mid-game, once the build is mostly online, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Nasus flips the script the longer a game runs, so the plan is simple: farm safely through the early rough patch, protect the stacks, and turn every teamfight into a slow-and-smash once the strike hits like a truck.

Game timeline · Nasus drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:27

Ambush zone8:00–9:30 Power spike 15:49

9:37

15:49

21:08

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 54/100 · Even

Core 1/3 items

Gold ~4.8k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Trinity Force · 15:49

Nasus Item Build

Nasus is a late-game juggernaut who scales off farming his empowered strike, so his build leans on health, armor, and ability haste to survive a weak early game and cash in once the stacks pile up. Everything is about staying alive long enough for a single hit to delete a target.

Standard loadout · Nasus The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Shield×1

Health Potion×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity62% · 51.6%

Plated Steelcaps38% · 49.3%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.F

Force of Nature36258.0%S

Spirit Visage1.6k53.9%J

Jak'Sho, The Protean39353.4%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.D

Dead Man's Plate32863.7%J

Jak'Sho, The Protean39353.4%R

Randuin's Omen41652.9%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration56952.0%S

Stealth Ward2.9k49.3%O

Oracle Lens42749.2%

Best Nasus Runes

Fleet Footwork is the standard keystone, picked to keep him safe while he does the one thing he cares about, stacking. His whole early game is farming up Q without getting run down, and the rune smooths over a shaky start. Pair it with sustain and tenacity so nothing knocks him off his rhythm. Everything on the page should serve staying alive long enough to matter.

The pre-game page Fleet Footwork · Precision + Resolve · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Fleet FootworkAttacking and moving builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack heals you and grants increased MS.

Triumph61% · 50.1%

Legend: Haste72% · 50.4%

Last Stand68% · 50.0%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Resolve, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Resolve Secondary

Second Wind66% · 50.3%

Unflinching59% · 50.6%

Stat shards Offense

Ability Haste+8 Ability Haste

Flex

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +8Ability Haste+20–180 Health (by level)

Start Trinity Force into Frozen Heart and build toward the fight where his stacks finally matter. A rough lane is survivable here, since the payoff is in scaling. Frozen Heart online around 21 minutes gives his Q the reliability to trade blows instead of only farming them. Get there and his stacked auto plus the slow makes him nearly impossible to peel off a target.

Nasus Skill Order

Wither waits until level four here, because a second point goes into Siphoning Strike at three instead. Spirit Fire covers level two for the armor shred, and Fury of the Sands at six is where the stacking finally has a fight window to cash into.

Skill order · Nasus R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›W

W›E

EMax Q first; W at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W28101213max 13

E314151718max 18

R61116max 16

Nasus Abilities

Soul Eater feeds him free life steal from level one, half of why he grinds out a losing lane without dying. Spirit Fire is his only ranged tool, a patch of flame that damages and peels armor off anyone standing in it.

Abilities · Nasuspatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Soul EaterPassiveP

Siphoning StrikeMax 1stQ

WitherMax 2ndW

Spirit FireMax lastE

Fury of the SandsUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Siphoning StrikePhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXBase Damage+20 per ranklv 130lv 450lv 570lv 790lv 9110Cooldown-1 per ranklv 17.5slv 46.5slv 55.5slv 74.5slv 93.5sConstant at every rankCost20same at all ranks

Nasus Base Stats

Base stats · NasusPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD67+4AS0.638+3.48%MS350Range125HP650+104HP59+0.9Armor34+4.7MR32+2.05MP326+62MP57.45+0.5

Nasus Matchups

Nasus struggles against lanes that deny his farm and poke him off the wave, since heavy ranged harass and early all-ins punish him before he scales. He loves immobile opponents he can cripple and grind down, but anything that kites his slow, short-range kit keeps him from ever connecting.

Lane matchups · Nasus click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs bruisers 01Avoid extended trades early; bruisers outdamage you before Q stacks arrive.02Build armor and use Wither to neuter their sustained attack speed.03Stack Q patiently; your R and Wither win the late duel. Win rate by game lengthNasus overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min47.1%20–28 min48.3%28–35 min52.4%Over 35 min48.4%

Mordekaiser, Zaahen, and Sion can bully him off farm early, choking the stacks his whole game depends on, so respect their pressure and play the early game safe. Do not force losing trades just to sneak a stack. He grinds down Volibear, Yasuo, and Riven the longer the game runs, since every extra minute only feeds his Q count. Survive the rough opening and those matchups quietly flip.

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