Mid · 82 games · NA

Nasus

Mid · 28% of games Top · 70%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−660 gold), and still wins 52%.

Win rate: 52.4%; ±10.8 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #27 of 70
Pick rate: 1.3%; ban 14.8%
Games: 82; ranked solo/duo

Nasus mid wins 52.4% of 82 ranked games in NA, rank 27 of 70 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Trinity Force first, at about 14:42.

The build at a glance

What most Nasus players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 9:18 · 83% of games

Item 1

Trinity Force 14:34 · 56% · 45 games

Item 2

Frozen Heart 19:12 · 44% · 14 games

Item 3 · late game

Randuin's Omen 23:24 · 7 of 52 games

Item 4 · late game

Bandlepipes 28:00 · 4 of 19 games

Runes

Fleet Footwork · Precision + Resolve 12% of games · 40% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 66% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 76% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Siphoning Strike first 91% of games · 52% wins Skill orders →

When Nasus wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′57% wins37% of games · 30

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins56% of games · 46

Lanes

Watch out for Zed

Hard Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Nasus games

First Baron: 90% against 31%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 31% 90% +59

First tower 32% 76% +44

First dragon 43% 63% +20

Rift Herald 47% 61% +14

First blood 48% 57% +10

First Voidgrubs 53% 51% −2

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Nasus plays

More damage to towers, fewer control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More damage to towers10706 against 6918 · +55%

Fewer control wards a game0.30 against 0.64 · −53%

Fewer multikills a game0.60 against 0.77 · −22%

Less damage a minute689 against 841 · −18%

Less share of team damage20% against 24% · −18%

About average: assists, minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:18

Item 2done ~19:30

Item 3done ~24:24

Item 4done ~29:06

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Frozen Heart › Spirit Visage 66.7%6 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Essence Reaver › Fiendhunter Bolts › Lord Dominik's Regards 60.0%5 games

Trinity Force › Plated Steelcaps › Frozen Heart › Randuin's Omen 0.0%3 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Bandlepipes › Frozen Heart 66.7%3 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Spirit Visage › Frozen Heart 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Spirit Visage 50%8

Protoplasm Harness 33%6

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Shield + Health Potion51.9%54

Doran's Helm + Health Potion52.9%17

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion57.1%7

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~9:1855.9%68

Mercury's Treads ~11:0037.5%8

Plated Steelcaps ~15:1825.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost48.4%62

Flash + Teleport77.8%9

Ghost + Teleport62.5%8

Skills

Max

E52.0%75

Max

W66.7%3

Start

W54.1%37

Start

Q56.3%16

Hard lanes

Watch out for Zed

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

Expected: what Nasus's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (10)

Yasuo 60% · 5

Locke 75% · 4

Yone 100% · 4

Galio 50% · 4

Sylas 33% · 3

Viktor 33% · 3

Katarina 67% · 3

Anivia 33% · 3

Vladimir 0% · 3

Syndra 100% · 3

Nasus vs Zed · 10 games · Early read

Nasus does worse than expected here

40%winsexpected 48%

−1625gold at 15′average −660

−15.0minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills −1.90 a game

Gold lead against Zed Nasus's average lead

Against Zed, Nasus is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 80% of games, and still wins 25% of those. When ahead, Nasus wins 100%.

Ahead at 15′100% wins2 games

Behind at 15′25% wins8 games

Full Nasus vs Zed page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies less than most mid laners, but more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Nasus dies 1.8 times a game (average 2.2). 52% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 31% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.8deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

52%involve the enemy junglermore than average (49%)

69%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (66%)

64%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Nasus dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 38% in your half of mid. Collapses: 60% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 83% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Nasus

Kind of death

Nasus Average

Gank 52% (avg 49%)Collapse 17% (avg 18%)1-v-1 31% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Nasus Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 26% (avg 27%)Support 7% (avg 7%)Mid laner 57% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00, 6:00–8:00 and 9:00

Nasus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Nasus; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Nasus wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.4 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 20 / 83

Their half of mid 2.4 K/D 53 / 22

The bot-side river 1.2 K/D 15 / 13

Your jungle 1.5 K/D 15 / 10

Their jungle 1.5 K/D 12 / 8

The top-side river 1.3 K/D 9 / 7

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Nasus wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 23% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 69% when Nasus is there and 69% when not.

Nasus

What most Nasus players run

Win rate by game length

Watch out for Zed

First Baron: 90% against 31%

More damage to towers, fewer control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Zed

No clearly easy lane yet

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

Nasus does worse than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Nasus's games

Dies less than most mid laners, but more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Nasus

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00, 6:00–8:00 and 9:00

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in your half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen