Nasus
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NA- Pick
- 4.1%picked in 117 of 2,886 games
- Ban
- 8.2%173 bans over 2,098 games, against 16.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,915 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 237,028 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLength
- How to play itFleet Footwork, then Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compAbsorbs damage first: absorbs more than 94% of top laners.FrontlineSplit-push
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.1%
- SoloQ
- 1.9%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 5.5%
- SoloQ
- 16.4%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.4 min
- SoloQ
- 27.9 min
How to play it?
Fleet Footwork, then Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesFleet Footwork74% · 7,614
SpellsGhost + Teleport35% · 3,569
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Trinity Force
- Frozen Heart
- Spirit Visage
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Absorbs damage first: absorbs more than 94% of top laners.
- Absorbs damagetop7%1,565 · top laners: 970
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Frontline
- Split-push
Like other top laners
- Gold at 20 min
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Lets allies carry kills
- Crowd control (CC)
- Team damage
What it is not
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 15 in lane, 91 in mid game and 77 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 73% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 15 of 100 among top laners537 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 91 of 100 among top laners978 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 77 of 100 among top laners1,171 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 16 of 100 among top laners-404 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 28 of 100 among top laners-177 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 94 of 100 among top laners1,565 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 57 of 100 among top laners54% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 55 of 100 among top laners29% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 72 of 100 among top lanersrank 72 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 40 of 100 among top laners0.7 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 59 of 100 among top laners22% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+1.9%9,148 picks of 474,050ban 16.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.1%47 picks of 4,328ban 5.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.6%13 picks of 2,224bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
8.3% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 3.0%G124 games of 805
- 2.4%G219 games of 805
- 4.3%G3+15 games of 351
Not enough series yet: published from 30.