The staple top lane pick happens to excel on ARAM as well. Nasus is a champion distinguished by his raid boss theme, which has him gaining power through stacking. His transformation power transformation runs through the early game, and in the mid-to-late game, he becomes a force to be reckoned with. To make this powerhouse of a champion even stronger, today we are gonna take a look at his absolute greatest ARAM build!
Best Nasus ARAM Items
Trinity Force
Just like summoners rift Nasus, the ARAM one will benefit the most with Trinity Force as the first buy. This great item will give us a ton of much-needed stats such as damage, HP, ability haste, and more. Additionally, it will give us a pretty neat passive that will enhance our auto-attack damage after casting abilities. We will even be able to proc its bonuses on our Q!
Frozen Heart
Nasus is a champion that does most of his damage through well-stacked Q. Therefore, there should not be much need for us to focus on damage items. Instead, it’s better to focus on getting enough sustain, which will enable us to stay in combat longer, meaning we get to proc more Q’s
The first tank Nasus item I would recommend is the Frozen Heart. It’s loaded with much-needed ability haste, armor, and mana stats. Additionally, the item has a really cool passive that will reduce 20% of the incoming auto-attack damage.
Spirit Visage
Nasus has a lot of inbuilt healing, and he will have even more with the runes we will be running. To support our healing, the next item we should build should be the Spirit Visage. It will increase our healing by a whopping 25% and it will give us a bunch of magic resist and HP as well.
Thornmail
Thornmail is another great item for Nasus in ARAM. It will significantly increase our armor, and it will give us a great utility passive. The passive will reduce the healing of any enemy who has auto-attacked us by 40%. This decrease is quite significant, and it will provide great utility for our whole team!
Jak’Sho the Protean
Finally, the item with the coolest name will be our last choice. Jak’Sho the Protean will buff us up in all resistance areas, HP, Armor, you name it. The additional perk of this item is it’s passive which will increase our resistances the longer we are in combat. This increase will stack pretty well on top of our ultimate, and all the other resistances we have acquired this far into the game.
Runes for Nasus ARAM
- Grasp of the Undying
- Font of Life
- Conditioning
- Overgrowth
- Triumph
- Legend: Haste
The greatest keystone rune for Nasus in ARAM will be the Grasp of the Undying. It will give us extra HP, as well as extra damage on our auto-attack. We can follow it up with Font of Life, which will heal us each time we impair an enemy (cast W).
The next two runes I would recommend are Conditioning and Overgrowth. These will give us free resistance stats such as armor and HP. Finally, I would take Triumph for healing after a takedown, and Legend: Haste for overall cooldown reduction.
Final Thoughts
Nasus is a pretty stellar ARAM pick. He is chunky enough to tolerate waves of damage, yet, he can annihilate a squishy carry in a matter of seconds. To level up his strength even further, I would recommend running the above-outlined build. The build will offer perfect amounts of damage, ability haste, and sustain, enabling you to play Nasus the way he’s meant to be played!