LoL champ’s first look in 3 years turns heads in LCK

Liam Ho

❘ Printed: 2024-08-09T05:43:43

Nasus has lastly seen the sunshine of day in skilled League of Legends after not being picked by any workforce for over 3 years.

Not all champions in League of Legends are made equal. Some are skewed closely for solo queue, and as such by no means see utilization in professional play. The identical will be mentioned about champions who thrive in professional play, and are then nerfed to the bottom and unplayable in solo queue.

Riot has to enchantment to a large viewers, so generally champions simply merely don’t match the invoice that professional gamers are on the lookout for. Certainly one of these champions is Nasus, who hasn’t seen any play within the LCK since 2021.

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That’s till an August 8 match between Hanwha Life Esports and OKSavingsBank BRION, the place BRION high laner selected the champion. This was the primary time anybody had unleashed Nasus within the LCK since March of 2021, making it a very monumental second for the infinitely stacking high laner.

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Being down a match towards Hanwha Life Esports, BRION’s high laner Morgan determined now was the time to drag out the large stops. Choosing Nasus into Doran’s Kennen, the sport began out effectively, with the canine getting first blood over the enemy high laner.

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The primary blood was not sufficient to cease Hanwha from rolling uncontrolled, taking out BRION in solely 23 minutes. Morgan ended up with 4 deaths and two kills, not a nasty scoreline contemplating how badly their workforce was stomped.

The early end additionally signifies that Nasus, a champion who needs to stack infinitely utilizing his Q to scale up, by no means received to his energy level within the mid to late recreation, that means he by no means hit his full potential. It’s clear that whereas Nasus wasn’t fairly capable of flip the tides of this recreation, it definitely reveals that just about any champion will be playable underneath the appropriate circumstances.

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