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[Duilliath]

Teemo doesn't get shrooms until level 6. Trundle gets Pillar as early as lvl 2-3. A single gank will set Trundle ahead so far that Teemo can't do anything any more.

[Lyese]

I've really been enjoying Quinn top. She shreds just about any bruiser/tank toplane, and goes toe to toe with casters. If only splitpushers were meta again...

I had a thread that went over each toplane champ and how to play against them, but it kinda dropped outta sight to inactivity. It's also woefully outdated. Maybe I could throw one together again, as I mostly play top.

EDIT: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...atchups-thread
In case you want to check it out. Some of it kinda holds up.

[Deleted]

Has anyone here had disconnects during game and error messages when trying to reconnect, but had internet and could connect to other websites without any problem?

I just lost a ranked game because i just got sudden "attempting to reconnect", in the middle of enemy base, tried to exit client then reconnect, it just opened black screen and after awhile gave error message about http servers or smth like that. During that entire team, i could normaly connect to all websites. Meh

[Lyese]

Has anyone here had disconnects during game and error messages when trying to reconnect, but had internet and could connect to other websites without any problem?

I just lost a ranked game because i just got sudden "attempting to reconnect", in the middle of enemy base, tried to exit client then reconnect, it just opened black screen and after awhile gave error message about http servers or smth like that. During that entire team, i could normaly connect to all websites. Meh

It happens to me occasionally. The error message is something like, "Unable to connect due to firewall." Unfortunately, I've never been able to reconnect to a game after that. However, I did notice the game wasn't recorded in my record, and I'm assuming isn't counted against me. How did it affect your rating?

[Jibjabb]

Has anyone here had disconnects during game and error messages when trying to reconnect, but had internet and could connect to other websites without any problem?

I just lost a ranked game because i just got sudden "attempting to reconnect", in the middle of enemy base, tried to exit client then reconnect, it just opened black screen and after awhile gave error message about http servers or smth like that. During that entire team, i could normaly connect to all websites. Meh

Congratulations, you most likely just got drop hacked by some dickhead on the enemy team. Welcome to the club. To confirm your entrance to the club please check your match history. If the game in question does not exist in anyway, than you have been approved as a verified member

Also if this "disconnect" happened right as you were likely going to win the game that further confirms it

[Deleted]

It is in my match history, and I did lose lp. Ahh well, shit happens I guess

[Lyese]

Congratulations, you most likely just got drop hacked by some dickhead on the enemy team. Welcome to the club. To confirm your entrance to the club please check your match history. If the game in question does not exist in anyway, than you have been approved as a verified member

Also if this "disconnect" happened right as you were likely going to win the game that further confirms it

So THAT'S what's happening. -_-

[Charge me Doctor]

Has anyone here had disconnects during game and error messages when trying to reconnect, but had internet and could connect to other websites without any problem?

I just lost a ranked game because i just got sudden "attempting to reconnect", in the middle of enemy base, tried to exit client then reconnect, it just opened black screen and after awhile gave error message about http servers or smth like that. During that entire team, i could normaly connect to all websites. Meh

Wasn't error about connection being dropped due to firewall? I had something like this couple of times, launching game instead of launcher helped

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A good Nasus will still get stacks. Wouldn't be hard to farm enough to kill a Trundle late game, you don't need 1000 stack Q.

I'm so tired of "OMG GUYZ I CAN'T TEAMFIGHT I DON'T HAVE 500 STACKS" Nasus, it's just stupid

[Duilliath]

Congratulations, you most likely just got drop hacked by some dickhead on the enemy team. Welcome to the club. To confirm your entrance to the club please check your match history. If the game in question does not exist in anyway, than you have been approved as a verified member

Also if this "disconnect" happened right as you were likely going to win the game that further confirms it

Not necessarily. Had it happen yesterday while on loading screen. Entire match disappeared.

[sam86]

A good Nasus will still get stacks. Wouldn't be hard to farm enough to kill a Trundle late game, you don't need 1000 stack Q.

Err no
Trundle ulti will shred Nasus and counter him well, and no matter how 'good' Nasus is, Nasus is one of easiest champs to be countered top unless his jungler help him (or even baby sit him) due to his really crap early game

@disconnect
If it says Firewall, it is a known bug in LoL, and since match didn't get removed from history, it wasn't drop hack (who few suffered from it, me included)
best way as earlier mentioned to counter that is close LoL and anything running in process related to LoL, then start again

[Duilliath]

due to his really crap early game

This is a common misunderstanding. Unless you can all-in Nasus and kill him, he will just let the lane get to his tower and farm up with Q there. Last hitting under turret is the easiest thing ever as Nasus once you have some stacks on your Q and your innate lifesteal will keep you in lane. Teleport back once you can afford either a Spectre's Cowl or Glacial Shroud (depending on who you're facing) and you're golden. With Nasus' innate tankiness due to his added health from his ult, he's actually a really poor choice to towerdive as well.

It is extremely easy to fuck up your lane vs Nasus and it is extremely easy to survive lane as Nasus.

[Deleted]

This is a common misunderstanding. Unless you can all-in Nasus and kill him, he will just let the lane get to his tower and farm up with Q there. Last hitting under turret is the easiest thing ever as Nasus once you have some stacks on your Q and your innate lifesteal will keep you in lane. Teleport back once you can afford either a Spectre's Cowl or Glacial Shroud (depending on who you're facing) and you're golden. With Nasus' innate tankiness due to his added health from his ult, he's actually a really poor choice to towerdive as well.

It is extremely easy to fuck up your lane vs Nasus and it is extremely easy to survive lane as Nasus.

This x1000.

Nasus is ridiculously hard to kill solo in lane unless you're playing something like Ryze, Darius etc. Being someone that plays a lot of Rengar in this matchup I'll be roaming to mid half of the laning phase to get them to carry (unless they are retarded then I just ward the enemy blue/red depending on which side I'm on and try cheesing them there you literally can not kill him, he will Wither you, take 0 damage because of how innately tanky he is and then sustain what little damage you did to him through his passive.

Probably why he's considered so Uber in low elo since no one has any concept of roaming. He is useless until you don't do anything to snowball yourself/mid ahead, heck you could even roam bot if you're running TP. This doesn't just apply to Rengar, though roaming on him is easier since his ult is pretty much a free kill if you use it correctly.

[Drikkink]

This is a common misunderstanding. Unless you can all-in Nasus and kill him, he will just let the lane get to his tower and farm up with Q there. Last hitting under turret is the easiest thing ever as Nasus once you have some stacks on your Q and your innate lifesteal will keep you in lane. Teleport back once you can afford either a Spectre's Cowl or Glacial Shroud (depending on who you're facing) and you're golden. With Nasus' innate tankiness due to his added health from his ult, he's actually a really poor choice to towerdive as well.

It is extremely easy to fuck up your lane vs Nasus and it is extremely easy to survive lane as Nasus.

This is why Riven was considered the only counter to Nasus. She has the ability to chase him down, is less affected by wither than most and has incredible amounts of damage. I laugh every time people say "TEEMO COUNTERS NASUS I WIN HAHA" because, yes the Blind stops his Q, but Teemo has the same advantage damage wise over Nasus as he does every top laner. He cannot kill Nasus unless the Nasus severely screws up.

Anyway, I was bored and played a 1v5 bot game as Akali. I went 79/5 with 5 pentas and many quadras. The deaths were either to towers killing me or the bots chaining their CC together better than any actually team I've seen.

[Charge me Doctor]

Iirc blind doesn't stop any attack modifying skills, like, Nasus' Q, Renes' W, Poppys' Q

[Drikkink]

Iirc blind doesn't stop any attack modifying skills, like, Nasus' Q, Renes' W, Poppys' Q

It does. It makes the lane more annoying than you'd think, but its not really threatening.

[Simulacrum]

Iirc blind doesn't stop any attack modifying skills, like, Nasus' Q, Renes' W, Poppys' Q

It counters most of them. I know it doesn't work on Renekton's W for some reason. Maybe there are more exceptions too.

[mini98]

This is a common misunderstanding. Unless you can all-in Nasus and kill him, he will just let the lane get to his tower and farm up with Q there. Last hitting under turret is the easiest thing ever as Nasus once you have some stacks on your Q and your innate lifesteal will keep you in lane. Teleport back once you can afford either a Spectre's Cowl or Glacial Shroud (depending on who you're facing) and you're golden. With Nasus' innate tankiness due to his added health from his ult, he's actually a really poor choice to towerdive as well.

It is extremely easy to fuck up your lane vs Nasus and it is extremely easy to survive lane as Nasus.

Pretty much this, a guy picked nasus into my lee sin the other day top lane. I usually beat nasus, but sejuani prioritised nasus's laning phase over her blue buffs, to the point where she let our jungler take the blue so she could keep pressure top lane. Even then I got nasus to 100 health and I escaped on 250ish when she ganked the 4th time at 12ish minutes. There was simply no way of me punishing him hard enough even though I was 30 cs ahead, especially since we had a feral flare warwick jungle whos idea of punishing them for that was counter jungling the bot jungle, which isnt going to count for anything if nasus gets through laning phase stacked. Another thing at my elo seems to be dont worry I know how to punish nasus, and they'll pick some champion and push the nasus into turret and tell you they're winning lane. Pushing nasus into turret just makes it easier for him xD

Also trundle doesnt have to kill nasus 1v1 late game, he just has to make nasus squishy enough to die easier.

[Deleted]

Jax's dodge doesn't work vs Nasus q, seems like I finally found my go to champion when facing Jax

[gegalfo]

Jax's dodge doesn't work vs Nasus q, seems like I finally found my go to champion when facing Jax

same goes for renektons w

[Kasierith]

If a nasus is good, he will get his Q farmed. It might not be to an insane amount (a good nasus can farm just fine under turret, but he's not going to get nearly as many Qs in as the tower will force him to take kills more quickly). He will also usually not die, unless it's a riven, or someone who outright outplays the Nasus in lane (trynd, teemo, kennen, ryze can all easily get kills this way). So the goal is usually keep him at his tower, where he can't spam his Q and get his stacks up, and then look to try to impact the game. A tower being pressed in gives you a lot of freedom, especially since nasus will not want to follow you for every little disappearance, so you can influence your jungle and possibly mid lane. After that, it's all about pressure. Don't put nasus in a position where he can get 12 Qs off in a single minion wave; accelerate the game by pressing towers, taking risks, grabbing up dragons, itemizing for a faster game, and focusing nasus. If you have a jungler and top who can kill him if he overextends to farm, kill him. Even if he has to use his ult to survive, that means his ult is down for a team fight and you can focus elsewhere.

If Nasus is at the point where you can't 2v1 him, you've left him alone for too long. And then you have to do the highly unreliable kite the nasus strategy, which isn't so much a strategy as a desperate plea to not get smacked down. Even with decent teamplay late game... I had a game where their blitz missed and instead of pulling our mid into a bush with four of them, they pulled in Nasus right on top of their team. We won the 2v4 quite easily, off of a mechanically tiny error.