I feel that nasus is a very strong hero, even without his ult.

He can be squishy, but with his Q's ability to crit, +crit% works wonders on him. With his ult up, I've 2-shot the other teams carries in team fights without being much more farmed than the rest of the team. last hitting with Q and stacking it up works amazing both early and late game as you get gear making him a force to be reckoned with. The ult is great for dealing with tanks as well, but the +damage from health drained is a bit too much imo.

All in all my endeavors with him have been a little too successful imo, but he's still not quite AP Sion and Yi status.

Problem is that he can't really get to an OP status because any decent player will see him use his ult and either run, or the whole team will zerg him.

Disables end his life, and he is VERY reliant on wither because his movement speed is rather slow. His ultimates AoE range is very small; and he can only become a REAL threat if the other team are stupid and stand in it without disabling/destroying him.

Guardian angel and Banshee veil are a must on him atm! imo

Been playing him a lot lately; he's honestly my favorite hero next to Jax. Both their play styles are very satisfying. But he just dies so fast...

I think a lot of it has to do with the HORRID amount of CC in the game, I really can't stand how many stuns there are. I'm fine with having thing proc stun abilities but so many champions have it readily available. Leaving champions like Nasus to be DESTROYED in the onslaught.

He's a great champ with great abilities, but he never lives to use them. I spend more time being bounced in the air with my avatar than actually trying to kill people. I think a certain percentage of the life being stolen needs to be returned as health as well; not all of it, maybe a half even a quarter.

I love Nasus, but yes there are some truly detrimental flaws in this champ. First off like almost everyone above me has pointed out, when the opposing team decides to cc him, he is done, there is no getting out of it. Second, his ultimate as awesome as it can be, becoming a giant black object on someone's screen just screams "Kill me, kill me". You can of course counter this with a tank build but that just makes all his abilities pointless being that they are all made for damage.

Main champions that I've noticed are his bane
Teemo (blind just breaks Nasus)
Jax (stun spam = no life leach = your death)

The pros to this champ are just down right amazing though, Your passive life leach stacks with the life leach of items allowing you to essentially 1v1 anyone that doesn't put the cc lock down on you. Whither is just a perfect anti-runner spell and is even phenomenal when fighting due to the fact that it reduces attack speed as well. Siphoning strike just makes this champ though, truly for those who are always going for the last hit. However, siphoning strike does seem a bit over powered since it doesn't have a limit on how many times it can increase in damage. While screwing around in a practice game I was able to get 1700 damage crits which really destroys anything that has that balls to get in your way.

Proposed changes

Change the animation of Avatar of Death so you do not become the first thing everyone sees on their screen. Perhaps keep everything the same about it but just make him keep his original size instead of being a six story building.

Siphoning Strike needs some kinda of cap on the damage increase from killing blows though I don't think it should become something easily achieved in a normal game.

To counter the CC shut down maybe just a bit more health or even an increase in base armor...idk I will let someone else do the math on this one.