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Nasus Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 4,184 gamesUpdated

47.0%win rate0.2%pick13.9%ban

Who counters Nasus

How to build Nasus

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

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

46.7% win rate 11% of games 330 games
RunesPrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: HasteCut DownInspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear33% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite67%
Skills
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Siphoning Strike
13457
Wither
89101213
Spirit Fire
214151718
Fury of the Sands
61116
StartGustwalker HatchlingHealth PotionGustwalker Hatchling, Health Potion
Full Nasus build →
47.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 45.8% over 9,865 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.0% over 4,184 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.9%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
13.9%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
38.7%under 22 min
50.8%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.

Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitJ NasusvsJarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IV
14 / 6 / 16

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Essence Reaver→Fiendhunter Bolts→Spirit Visage→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

GhostSmite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQWREEWERW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitJ NasusvsSejuani champion portraitJ Sejuani
5 / 2 / 7

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Trinity Force→Protoplasm Harness

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QEQWQRQWQWRWW
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Nasus champion portraitJ NasusvsTalon champion portraitJ Talon
9 / 1 / 9

Build

Scorchclaw PupIonian Boots of Lucidity|Iceborn Gauntlet→Spirit Visage→Lord Dominik's Regards→Sterak's Gage

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEREEWWRW

Runes

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

Most popular 47.3% win rate · 33% of games · 1,144 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: HasteCut Down
InspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Tenacity and Slow Resist
Runner up 42.5% win rate · 23% of games · 791 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveSecond WindUnflinching
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashSmiteFlash + Smite67%46.5%3,003 games
  • GhostSmiteGhost + Smite32%48.4%1,449 games

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

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity40%Mercury's Treads26%Boots of Swiftness21%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 45.4% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling50%
5 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Nasus build

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

  1. Frozen Heart1st
  2. Trinity Force2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path45.3% win rate117 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Nasus →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,382 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
38% · 45.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
25% · 49.0% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
20% · 49.5% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
11% · 46.9% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 33.3% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
2% · 36.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Trinity Force+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 35.2% win rate · 108 games
  2. Frozen Heart›Trinity Force+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 30.7% win rate · 75 games
  3. Trinity Force+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 37.5% win rate · 56 games
  4. Trinity Force›Frozen Heart+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 30.6% win rate · 49 games
  5. Trinity Force+Boots of Swiftness1% of games · 36.1% win rate · 36 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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