How to win lane as Darius against Nasus · 48.94% win rate (3,296 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Bully him off Q stacks — E-pull and all-in before he scales.
Track: Nasus's W — Wither (15–11s cooldown). His only kite. Bait it before committing.
Read from Darius's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Nasus.
This is Darius's own plan; across 3,296 pooled games the lane is leaning Nasus.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Darius | Level 1 favours you — Nasus is passive and can't contest your walk-up. |
| Level 2 | Darius | Level 2 keeps Hemorrhage chip yours as he tries to stack. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | At 3 your E all-in dominates his farm-focused early game. |
| Levels 4-5 | Darius | Levels 4-5 remain your prime kill window before Wither and R. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Even at 6 a stacked R executes him if he lacks Fury of the Sands. |
| First item | Even / skill | First-item Wither and Q stacks start swinging trades to Nasus. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Two items in, full-stack Wither-tank Nasus hard-outscales you. |
Levels 1-2 you crush the walk-up — Nasus is passive and farm-focused, so freeze near your side, punish every stack attempt with E-into-Q Hemorrhage chip, and starve his Q Siphoning Strike of cannon minions.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Darius's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Darius 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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Nasus, slightly — Darius wins 48.94% of 3,296 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Nasus has a small statistical edge (51.06% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Nasus has the slight edge (Darius wins 48.94%), though it stays close.
Darius takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Unflinching) vs Nasus.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — protects your execute math. Build Stridebreaker (the stickiness fix — run-downs become lethal) first, then Sterak's Gage / Dead Man's Plate, with Plated Steelcaps.
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