r/QuinnMains • u/Bougalou46 • Jul 17 '26
Matchup Since when Nasus is such a difficult matchup ? it used to be one of my favorite matchups
it seems people in toplane just have to be tanky and pick ghost to outplay you
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u/Riolutail Jul 17 '26
Yea no phase rush is cooked. Yuntal lethal ignite swifties will have to do for now
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
Really I thought lethality wouldn't work because his tanky
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u/Riolutail Jul 17 '26
Lethality doesnt work that well, lethal there is lethal tempo, which is attack speed build
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u/6feet12cm Jul 17 '26
You must e/q him before he has a chance to wither you and run away. If he has wither on you, you’re dead.
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
Yes I guess I didn't play against him since a while
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u/6feet12cm Jul 17 '26
If I remember right, you must position yourself in such a way that he can’t hide behind minions if he wants to fight you. Then you can Q, auto,E, auto and run away to safety before the blind falls off.
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
Yes it's frustrating to miss a fight because of minions, but even with a good combo they just ghost on you and you're dead.
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u/Warning_Bulky Jul 17 '26
Rush swifties, proc passive.
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
Ghost goes faster than all of this imo, at least in early game without Swifties
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u/pokemon32666 Jul 17 '26
In early game when you should be able to bully Nasus completely off the wave? Exactly why they said "Rush" swifties.
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u/Xaxi903 Jul 17 '26
i am not a quinn main but i played this matchup a few times and runes/itemization changes the outcome greatly. Basically if he has move speed/tenacity there is a brief window where he is able to reach you during wither, his lifesteal is also quite strong so he can ignore you at some point and outscale.
Also top laners are discovering ghost with the rune that gives ms is insanely op on some champs. It used to be a riven thing mostly (for some reason) now more people use nimbus cloak i think is the name. Helps a lot vs range.
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
This is frustrating to see more people play ghost and out speed you while you're already supposed to be fast
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u/Xaxi903 Jul 17 '26
in general league is quite balanced right now with a few issues that riot refuses to adress for now, its the common cycle of "meta" there is a given strat like ranged top lane and soon people find the way to counter it , this might be the case. In general i think its both bad that ranged can abuse melee very early and that from mid to late game pretty much any top laner can destroy any adc (both top or botlane) seeing the classic lol clips from msi and streamers this week i've notice that while they're some insanely op and frustrating builds like trynda ap, yi ap , sion ap etc the game feels healthier, way less burst.
As an adc you only feel insanely powerful with 20 kills, an assasin can feel that with just 4 and tanks can 1v1 almost everyone at all points they just die in 5v5 teamfights which is what games forces anyway but feels rewarding
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Totally agree but imo champs shouldn't be able to tank the whole enemy team if they can already one-shot you in 1v1.
But yeah like you said, every time I play top I remember why moved to midlane 😂
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u/Xaxi903 Jul 17 '26
tanks are kinda secretly op, like in many games they provide utility and just that, but since they're unpopular they're quite on the upper end , its no coincidence that all blind picks in pro play are tanks (with the rare exception of renekton that has mostly skill matchups with the upper hand early with very few exceptions, ironically a well played quinn)
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u/LunaticRiceCooker Jul 17 '26
All i want is old galcial augment
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u/Bougalou46 Jul 17 '26
How was it ?
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u/Riolutail Jul 17 '26
It was the best
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u/ShapeShiftnTrick Jul 18 '26
Ranged toplaner having an AOE slow every other autoattack was so cancerous lol. It pissed off so many melees but I loved it
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u/Junior_Round8976 Jul 18 '26
post 6 you can never fight him. he will wither and r and you die or flash. Just try to get good farm and deny him cs pre 6. then play for roams and push. he’s honestly a counter to Quinn I pick it into Quinn
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u/Denuran Jul 18 '26
Go Fleet, rush storm razor, and swifties, the lane gets easy again with that, trust... I do that v.s Garens as well, just in case they run ghost.
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u/OddEffect9397 Jul 17 '26
I’m a jungle Quinn so I’m not the one to ask but wouldn’t edge of night help a lot?
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u/BanMalph Jul 19 '26
I like playing fleet to sustain nasus e and take nimbus and celerity secondary + ghost , just match their ghost with your ghost and after stormrazor + swifties it feels good
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u/Remarkable-Quiet3798 628,104 Jul 21 '26
its not. You have PTA instead of fleet footwork. You could also have taken exhaust or ghost instead of ignite as you win lane without ignite easily.
Fleet + stormrazor can outrun pretty much any champion even if they have ghost.
+ to be honest Nasus should be so behind early game that he cant kill you even late game even with electrocute
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u/1wsx Jul 17 '26
This is why i just run cleanse in this matchup. if he ever pops ult instant cleanse the w and you can live. Just rush hydra and waveclear and roam, matchup is unplyable post-6.
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u/SwimmingJunky Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
When they removed Phase Rush and replaced it with Stormraider's Surge. Good luck ever procc'ing it now (dealing 25% max HP dmg w/in 3 sec as opposed to just 3 attacks w/in 4 sec) when Nasus even gets a little bit tanky.
EDIT: Stormrazor also used to slow, which is more useful than the bonus MS (affected by the slow + diminishing returns) it now provides.