Imperial Mandate Nasus Build

Imperial Mandate Nasus Build.

Imperial Mandate Nasus build with runes and items. Imperial Mandate Nasus guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Imperial Mandate Nasus build in League of Legends Patch 26.2!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror should be final item in your build.
Tear of the Goddess should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Nasus ability Wither should be leveled first.
W
Nasus ability Spirit Fire should be leveled second.
E
Nasus ability Siphoning Strike should be leveled third.
Q
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Imperial Mandate should be final item in your build.
Spirit Visage should be final item in your build.
Kaenic Rookern should be final item in your build.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter should be final item in your build.
Frozen Heart should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Guardian from Resolve tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Exhaust as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Imperial Mandate Nasus Runes

Resolve
Resolve major tree Grasp of the Undying rune.
Resolve major tree Aftershock rune.
Resolve major tree Guardian rune.
Resolve major tree Demolish rune.
Resolve major tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve major tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve major tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve major tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve major tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve major tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve major tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve major tree Unflinching rune.
Precision
Precision minor tree Absorb Life rune.
Precision minor tree Triumph rune.
Precision minor tree Presence of Mind rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Alacrity rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Haste rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Bloodline rune.
Precision minor tree Coup de Grace rune.
Precision minor tree Cut Down rune.
Precision minor tree Last Stand rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

Optional Summoner Spells

Heal summoner spell

Heal

OK option if you want to play more support-ish as it provides extra healing.

Ignite summoner spell

Ignite

Offensive option. Improves your damage.

Ghost summoner spell

Ghost

Mobility option. Helps you position better to apply slows. Good for kiting or chasing. And running away.

Looking for another support build? Check this:

SupportNasus

How it works

General

  1. This build is all about Imperial Mandate and slowing your enemies.
  2. You support your team through disrupting fights, slowing enemies, providing healing/buffs, and soaking damage.

Playstyle

  1. Disrupt fights with slows and CC. ❄️
  2. Proc Imperial Mandate and Font of Life frequently. ⚡
  3. Support allies. 🎯
  4. Adapt items to counter enemy team. 🛡️

How to play

General

  1. Your core is Imperial Mandate, optionally Rylai's Crystal Scepter for more consistent slows.
  2. Your slows trigger Font of Life AND Imperial Mandate, healing and buffing your allies.
  3. Remember that you need to keep close to your allies to trigger Guardian.

How Imperial Mandate works

  1. Imperial Mandate requires your TEAM to proc it for damage. Try coordinating it with your allies - mark targets when they're about to get poked or when your team goes in.

Buffing your team

  1. Font of Life heal triggers various support items like Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
  2. If your team needs sustain, you can even get Diadem of Songs.
  3. If your team has auto attackers, get Ardent Censer. Your Font of Life will buff them constantly.
  4. Bandlepipes is excellent - gives MS and buffs allies' attack speed when you CC/slow enemies.
  5. Staff of Flowing Water is good item if you have lots of AP scaling champions on the team.

Adaptation

  1. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR items like Kaenic Rookern or Spirit Visage.
  2. Enemy team heavy on AD? Buy Armor items like Thornmail or Randuin's Omen.
  3. Your team lacks damage? You can buy damage items - Liandry's Torment or Blackfire Torch work well.

Tips and Tricks

Champion

  1. Always try stacking your Siphoning Strike (Q), even if you are playing very unusual builds like AP or Support. It's gonna help with farming, emergency damage or when pushing turret.
  2. Your Siphoning Strike (Q) resets auto. Try weaving it: auto - Q - auto. This maximizes damage output (especially important to push turrets faster).
  3. Want to push turrets even faster? Use your Fury of the Sands (R) to reduce your Q cooldown and weave-Q spam to destroy turret quicker.
  4. Usually spam your Wither (W) on enemy carries, it is a great catching tool.
  5. You can use Fury of the Sands (R) before taking portal (frost-gate). You will be damaging everyone on your path during travel. Especially effective, if you are playing AP #champion build!

Riot

  1. Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
  2. If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
  3. If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.

Skill Order

  • Nasus [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Siphoning Strike
  • Nasus [object Object] ability.
    W
    Wither
  • Nasus [object Object] ability.
    E
    Spirit Fire
  • Nasus [object Object] ability.
    R
    Fury of the Sands

Items

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror item.
Tear of the Goddess item.
Rush this #1
Imperial Mandate item.
Optional rush #2
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.
Boots
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Good support items
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
Ardent Censer item.
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Diadem of Songs item.
Redemption item.
Bandlepipes item.
Moonstone Renewer item.
Good tank items
Knight's Vow item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Good MR items
Kaenic Rookern item.
Abyssal Mask item.
Force of Nature item.
Spirit Visage item.
Hollow Radiance item.
Good Armor items
Randuin's Omen item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Thornmail item.
Frozen Heart item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Unending Despair item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
For mana problems
Tear of the Goddess item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Situational dmg items
Muramana item.
The Collector item.
Serylda's Grudge item.
Titanic Hydra item.
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Sundered Sky item.
Counter healing
Executioner's Calling item.
Chempunk Chainsword item.
Counter shielding
Serpent's Fang item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Seeker's Armguard item.
Elixir of Wrath item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Imperial Mandate item.
Spirit Visage item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.
Frozen Heart item.