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Nasus Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 58,027 gamesUpdated

50.4%win rate2.6%pick13.9%ban

Who counters Nasus

Every Top matchup for Nasus, ranked →

How to build Nasus

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Trinity Force→Frozen Heart→Spirit Visage

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Trinity Force → Frozen Heart → Spirit Visage

56.7% win rate 20% of games 7,579 games
RunesPrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveSecond WindUnflinching58% of games
SpellsGhostTeleportGhost + Teleport51%
Skills
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Siphoning Strike
14578
Wither
29101213
Spirit Fire
314151718
Fury of the Sands
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Nasus build →
50.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 143,543 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.4% over 58,027 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.0%at Emerald+
2.6%pick rate
13.9%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
50.3%under 22 min
51.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitT NasusvsDarius champion portraitT Darius
2 / 11 / 3

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Iceborn Gauntlet→Frozen Heart

Spells & runes

GhostTeleport|

Skills

EQWQQREEEQRQEWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitT NasusvsVolibear champion portraitT Volibear
5 / 7 / 7

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Trinity Force→Frozen Heart→Randuin's Omen→Thornmail

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

EQEWQRQQQERWWWWREE
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitT NasusvsUrgot champion portraitT Urgot
13 / 7 / 15

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Trinity Force→Frozen Heart→Spirit Visage→Thornmail

Spells & runes

GhostTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.9% win rate · 58% of games · 31,131 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveSecond WindUnflinching
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 46.7% win rate · 10% of games · 5,352 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationApproach VelocityBiscuit Delivery
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • GhostTeleportGhost + Teleport51%50.0%30,866 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost23%52.2%13,801 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity45%Plated Steelcaps29%Mercury's Treads21%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 51.1% win rate

Nasus build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Trinity Force1st
  2. Frozen Heart2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path58.1% win rate2,676 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Nasus →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 58,107 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
43% · 51.8% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
28% · 50.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
21% · 51.7% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
4% · 54.3% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 41.1% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 39.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Trinity Force+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 41.7% win rate · 1,846 games
  2. Trinity Force›Frozen Heart+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 44.2% win rate · 1,752 games
  3. Trinity Force›Frozen Heart+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 47.4% win rate · 1,181 games
  4. Trinity Force›Frozen Heart›Spirit Visage+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 56.6% win rate · 1,174 games
  5. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 37.4% win rate · 1,119 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Nasus against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Nasus's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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