Taliyah vs Nasus Counter Pick

Nasus is built for long games. Siphoning Strike grows permanently on kills, Soul Eater hands him free life steal, and Fury of the Sands stacks health and attack range onto a frame that already reaches 2,418 health and 113.9 armour by level 18. The 123 games recorded on patch 16.13.1 still read 56.1% for Taliyah, difficulty Easy.

Her damage type is most of the reason. Threaded Volley is magic and fires from 525 range, so his armour curve barely applies, and she never has to stand inside Spirit Fire to use it. Wither is the ability that decides a skirmish: decaying move speed and attack speed on a champion who already travels at 330 against his 350. Holding Seismic Shove until Wither has been spent, rather than casting it on cooldown, is the whole execution requirement — Taliyah is rated 5 out of 10 for difficulty, Nasus 6.

Unraveled Earth adds the second layer. Its mines stun anything knocked through them, and Seismic Shove can supply the knock, so a Nasus walking forward with 67 base attack damage can be stopped without spending a summoner spell. What she cannot afford is a wasted cooldown at 550 base health and 18 base armour, where two empowered strikes are enough. His scaling is laid out on the Nasus champion page.