League of Legends

[Sigfried Hunin]

CDR caps at 40%. If you're grabbing Frozen Heart and building your philo stone into Shurelya's, that's 35% CDR reduction right there without boots o' lucid. The boots, in that case, are wasted. And they're damn expensive anyway; 700 gold just for boots 2 and 15% CDR? Get your Kindlegem instead.

Really, I'd say it comes down to what you anticipate needing to defend your lane. Your job as Nasus is to sit top and farm allllll day.

If you're laning against an AD champ without significant CC (Caitlyn, Wukong), get Ninja Tabi. They're cheap and awesome.

Magic damage making you cry? Grab a null-magic mantle and let it sit there. Don't even feel obligated to build it into something else; if you decide you absolutely don't need anything it builds into, and you're working on your sixth item, sell it. You're out 120 gold, but that's a mere 5 or 6 cs. If that's the difference between farming your Q and not farming your Q due to harass, it's hella worth it. If it saves you from one recall back to base to heal, it's worth it. And it's not like it can't be built into useful things. Don't build merc treads just for the mr.

If you didn't grab merc treads, but are getting rocked by CC, build an Eleisa's. Or Cloak and Dagger, if you've got some decent AD.

I say all this as someone who doesn't play Nasus, so grain-of-salt.

Merc Treads, not Ionian boots. TENACITY, mate, not CDR.