Mid · 175 games

Nasus

Mid · 26% of games Top · 70%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (52%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−729 gold).

Win rate: 48.6%; ±7.4 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #47 of 81
Pick rate: 0.9%; ban 7.7%
Games: 175; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Nasus mid wins 48.6% of 175 ranked games, rank 47 of 81 mid champions (tier C). 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 8:12 · 75% of games

Item 1

Trinity Force 14:32 · 65% · 109 games

Item 2

Frozen Heart 19:38 · 45% · 36 games

Item 3 · late game

Randuin's Omen 24:24 · 14 of 90 games

Item 4 · late game

Bandlepipes 29:06 · 5 of 26 games

Runes

Fleet Footwork · Precision + Resolve 12% of games · 33% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 61% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 73% of games · 46% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Siphoning Strike first 93% of games · 48% wins Skill orders →

When Nasus wins

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′56% wins42% of games · 73

Lasts 25′ or more44% wins56% of games · 98

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: 86% against 31%

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

First Baron 31% 86% +55

First tower 27% 74% +47

Rift Herald 39% 63% +24

First dragon 39% 60% +21

First blood 39% 59% +20

First Voidgrubs 46% 52% +6

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

Fewer control wards, more damage to towers

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

Fewer control wards a game0.38 against 1.01 · −62%

More damage to towers9939 against 6819 · +46%

Fewer multikills a game0.51 against 0.74 · −31%

Fewer solo kills a game1.3 against 1.8 · −25%

Less damage a minute678 against 839 · −19%

About average: gold, minions.

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 ~13:48

Item 2done ~19:48

Item 3done ~24:48

Item 4done ~29:30

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Frozen Heart › Spirit Visage 66.7%9 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Frozen Heart › Randuin's Omen 28.6%7 games

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

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Spirit Visage › Frozen Heart 60.0%5 games

Trinity Force › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Frozen Heart › Bandlepipes 50.0%4 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Trinity Force › Bandlepipes › 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

Force of Nature 60%10

Frozen Heart 56%9

Spirit Visage 36%14

Bandlepipes 33%6

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 Potion50.5%107

Doran's Helm + Health Potion47.4%38

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion42.3%26

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~8:1252.7%131

Mercury's Treads ~10:1835.0%20

Plated Steelcaps ~13:3041.2%17

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost46.5%127

Ghost + Teleport54.5%22

Flash + Teleport57.1%21

Skills

Max

E47.5%162

Max

W75.0%8

Start

W50.8%63

Start

Q44.7%47

Hard lanes

Watch out for Zed

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 2 of 2, still wins 1 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 (19)

Viktor 56% · 9

Yone 75% · 8

Sylas 38% · 8

Syndra 100% · 7

Zoe 57% · 7

Locke 50% · 6

Anivia 33% · 6

Tristana 60% · 5

Diana 60% · 5

Galio 60% · 5

Katarina 40% · 5

Irelia 20% · 5

Aurora 50% · 4

Vladimir 0% · 4

Azir 100% · 3

Lissandra 67% · 3

Ekko 67% · 3

Kayle 0% · 3

Xerath 100% · 3

Nasus vs Yasuo · 14 games · Early read

Nasus does better than expected here

50%winsexpected 46%

−573gold at 15′average −729

−17.3minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.64 a game

Gold lead against Yasuo Nasus's average lead

Against Yasuo, Nasus is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 64% of games, and still wins 33% of those. When ahead, Nasus wins 80%.

Ahead at 15′80% wins5 games

Behind at 15′33% wins9 games

Full Nasus vs Yasuo page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Nasus games: Jhin

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Qiyana53% · exp. 46% +717 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin29% · exp. 51% −2124 games

Easier

Tristana60% · exp. 47% +1315 games

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 about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Nasus dies 2.1 times a game (average 2.2). 56% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 30% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

56%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

70%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

60%with no teammate nearabout 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: 46% in your half of mid. Collapses: 56% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 74% 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 56% (avg 50%)Collapse 14% (avg 17%)1-v-1 30% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Nasus Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 30% (avg 28%)Support 5% (avg 7%)Mid laner 55% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–9:00, then every minute

Nasus Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

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: 2.3 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 55 / 201

Their half of mid 2.3 K/D 104 / 45

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 34 / 27

The bot-side river 1.2 K/D 32 / 26

The top-side river 0.9 K/D 25 / 27

Their jungle 1.5 K/D 24 / 16

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 20% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 68% when Nasus is there and 67% when not.

Nasus

What most Nasus players run

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Watch out for Zed

First Baron: 86% against 31%

Fewer control wards, more damage to towers

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 2 of 2, still wins 1 of them

Nasus does better than expected here

Nasus does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Nasus games: Jhin

Teammates that change Nasus's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Nasus

Ganks come at 3:00–9:00, then every minute

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

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

Where fights happen