Nasus

Nasus is an AD juggernaut in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 52.2% win rate, 0.4% pick rate, 4,916 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Nasus is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Nasus wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 7/10 split-push, 7/10 waveclear. Nasus's soft spots are siege and disengage (3/10, 3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.

The most-played core build is Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, Spirit Visage, which holds a 64.8% win rate across 125 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.

The matchup to respect is Seraphine, where Nasus sits at just 42.6%, the lane swings the other way into Darius (55.9%), and on the team side, Nasus gains the most from a Vayne (+9.3% pair win rate).