How to win lane as Akali against Nasus · 54.5% win rate over 1,004 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Akali | Nasus has no level-1 combat outside Wither and no way to punish a shove — push in and deny his very first Q stacks. |
| Level 2 | Akali | He still can't trade back; your Q out-ranges his stacking autos and your passive ring punishes every walk-up to a minion. |
| Level 3 | Akali | With Q and your passive online you out-poke a Nasus who can only farm — keep him off cannon stacks and behind on damage. |
| Levels 4-5 | Akali | Shroud comes online: you reset every trade he starts and tax the greedy last-hits he can't skip. |
| Level 6 | Akali | Perfect Execution is a free all-in — E-dash in, two-part R for the missing-health execute, and he has no dash or CC to escape. |
| First item | Akali | Your Rocketbelt/Lich Bane burst beats a Nasus whose first item is tank stats, not damage — force the all-in before he scales. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Stacked Q, Wither and Spirit Visage make him too durable to burst while his slow guts your kite — at 2+ items he owns the duel. |
Nasus has zero pre-6 kill pressure — no dash, no gap-close, and Wither is his only combat tool — so the early game is entirely about starving his Q stacks. Last-hit with the tip of your Q and proc your passive ring so that every time he walks up to last-hit he eats an empowered auto. He can't punish you for shoving, so push him under tower and make him choose between farm and HP. Just respect that one Wither turns a winning trade catastrophic — don't dive before you have Shroud up to bail.
The full Akali vs Nasus report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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