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The thing about Nasus is his stack gain isn't linear. After he decides to join his team his stack gains fall apart as he won't likely be the one killing minions. Besides that the seconday counter to nasus is picking a champ that can bully late game as hard as he can in teamfights (Maokai, Gragas). As long as you can keep Nasus off your adc long enough for them to shred him down he poses little threat against coordinated teams that can't be matched or topped by other top lane tanks.

Honestly I think Skarner may come out in a pretty big way. Q getting more damage is meh but his E buff will make him much scarier late game. On top of that he already has a hugely efficient and safe clear that's basically Vi tier and the new tank item in the jungle offers him more flexibility if he doesn't want to go full duelist.

In my experience (aka one game of team builder) Kha'zix could take the 4 neutral jungle camps with relative ease without a buff. Eve may be a different story but with Kha'zix at least with a Gromp start and by clearing away the smaller monsters in a camp first he could do a full minus buffs clear before going back for a Trailblazer and pots. It may take some aggro resetting if you dont receive a leash but it should still be possible.

 

Edit: Just tested it out solo and even without a leash Kha'zix can still clear all non buff camps without red or blue buff.

So the new jungles been kicking everyone's ass recently and it is fair to say Riot is partially to blame. However recently I tuned into Valkrin's stream and he found a really good jungle path that seems to be strong with just about every jungle so I thought I'd share (I've tried it with both Skarner and Kha'zix and both do exceptionally well).

 

Basically the gimmick behind the strategy is that for your first clear you don't take either of your buff camps. It seems a little strange at first but hear me out. Start like you normally would (Gromp or Krugs) and do a full clear minus the buff camps ending you last camp with a smite on the other camp you'd start on (so Smite Gromp, then to Wolves, then to Raptors, then smite Krugs or vice versa). After you've finished your first clear go back and get your smite upgrade of choice and you should have enough for 3 pots. The start on the buff of your choosing and do a second full clear this time with the buff camps (Red, smite Krugs, Raptors, Wolves, Blue, Gromp). From here you should be a. reasonably to very healthy and gank ready, b. have fresh double buffs to gank with, and c. be level 5 and halfway to 6. From here you jungle as you normally would and can gank freely but you should probably have a significant lead in both gold and xp over the other jungle and be pretty far ahead of the game curve about on par with your solo laners in level in my experiance.

 

Obviously this strategy leaves you very vulnerable to buff steals which is the obvious downside but with the jungle kicking everyone's ass recently not many junglers try it assuming your going to be doing a standard buff clear anyways. Besides that you aren't going to get any extremely early ganks either but if your willing to take the risk I've found this clear path to be fantastic. 

Anyone have Silent Night Sona to duo with? Gotta sing some carols with my new skin :). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0ar6-dJgI

If Tryn needs anything its a rework. His kit is absolutely unfun to play against if he is in a position to consistently get his core items that Riot will never let him be a strong pick without significant changes to how his kit functions due to the high luck factor trades early game and unforgiving nature of his ult to enemies even a little behind. The RNG, massive aoe ad removal and ability to dive turrets on full health targets freely on top of the lowest teamplay potential in the game make him have one of the most toxic if not the most toxic kit in the game and until that is changed I wouldn't be surprised if he never becomes a meta top laner for more than 1 patch.

Graves functions really well as an ADC antibully having good trading power during the early-mid game and outscaling champs like Lucian in the late game. However his long cooldowns and general reliance on ult for pressure makes him inconstant when trying to fill Lucians or Corki's shoes which is why despite being a caster based ad Graves really struggles in hyper carry friendly meta's. In short he is a great counter pick but has too many exploitable weaknesses to be a really great blind option.

The reason MF was good back in the day was because you could quickly stack Impure shots on a target to get really high damage quick trades and her ult was just a core ability in its own right with high initial damage so even if it got interrupted you still got a pretty healthy chunk out of the enemy team. Riot then made her impure shots passive stack cap greater but reduced the damage each stack gave which really eliminated her best strength making her close to useless as far as competitive was concerned. Then the rework happened which took away her other major strength in her ult since now she cant just follow up on a strong initiation and aoe ult people since without impure shot stacks already on a target the ult damage is just pitiful now. She's a champion that carries a lot of risk to pick and is only rewarding under the narrowest of circumstances.

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Miss fortune struggles a lot with identity confusion. She has by far the highest sustained dps of any adc but she doesn't have the kit to really allow for a lot of sustained dps. Her offensive skills all are built around quick trading but MF wants to get in the fight and stay in the fight. Her E and passive need to be reworked for her to see any consistent success or they need to lower your impure shots buff to better reflect your kits ability to deal real up front damage.  

Although Miss fortune has very good dps her w takes too long to stack without her ultimate. if i had to change her i would cut the maximum number of stacks in half and double the AD ratio ( stacking max would be 3/4/5/6). this would help her damage a lot as her dps simply takes far too long to ramp up. her e is fine, it gives a strong slow and has very good base damage.

The issue is if you dont have your team to back you up and lock the enemy down there's no way you can capitalize on the stacks your ult puts on the enemy because if they are smart they'll run away before the damage really starts kicking in. Her e is the problem in this scenario because its short range and moderate cast time means you can't effectively use it to lock enemies down into your ultimate especially if they are 1 of half of the roster with some sort of dash ability to get them out. She's just way way way too reliant on her team going something like Amumu, Braum, Galio, Lissadra or some other ridiculous lockdown comp to be effective

I wouldn't say necessarily. There are an equal number of players that cower as Leona under turret as tower diving teemo's at low levels. The thing is when your new you cant calculate the damage you deal. When veterans know they can get aggressive they go aggressive they just know their limits better.