Even when I’m not streaming it, I am often playing Legends of Runeterra on the side, getting a run of the Path of Champions complete during my lunch break while grinding what quests the current event has for me. Lucky for me, this current event brought someone into the Path that I couldn’t pass up.
That’s right. My boyf-, I mean favorite champion, Nasus, is now a playable champion with his own deck and abilities, and I just couldn’t pass up the chance to play him on stream.
Although it has been some time since the jackal-headed ascended has seen competitive play in Constructed, as a Champion he is well-suited to the Path of Champions. That’s mostly because he awards us for doing the thing we will always have to do anyway: Kill our opponent’s units.
No matter what our strategy is, we are always going to need to remove threats and make strong, favorable swings in combat that will take care of our enemies while minimizing our losses. With his abilities and kit, Nasus has the tools to do just that. My build even has items on it so that he strikes the strongest enemy and deals one damage to all others when he hits the board, making him a potential removal spell that can’t be responded to.
His deck also has access to support spells like Quicksand and Exhaust to manipulate combat both defensively and offensively to make swinging in for that last chunk of damage, or to get rid of a difficult unit, easier. Most of all, his signature Siphoning Strike is almost always useful, especially in games where keeping the opponent off of dangerous champions is our way of making sure they don’t overtake us.
There’s another strength to the character, but we’ll get to that next time.
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