How to win lane as Gangplank against Nasus · 56.11% win rate over 647 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | His level 1 auto-and-Q poke is real and your barrels aren't online yet — roughly even, just deny his Siphoning Strike last-hits. |
| Level 2 | Gangplank | With a second Parrrley point you out-range him: harass every time he steps into melee to stack, and his Q can't reach back. |
| Level 3 | Gangplank | Parrrley poke plus your first keg detonation starts to hurt — he either eats it or gives up the stack. |
| Levels 4-5 | Gangplank | You out-trade a stackless Nasus; Parrrley-into-keg chunks him and his only answer is Wither, which you bait then punish. |
| Level 6 | Gangplank | Cannon Barrage on the wave zones him off his stacks and makes any jungle gank lethal before his Q scaling matters. |
| First item | Gangplank | Empowered Parrrley off your Sheen line detonating a chained keg bursts him while his stack count is still low. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | He out-scales hard: a stacked Siphoning Strike plus Fury of the Sands tanks your barrels and Wither kills your kiting — this is his window, not yours. |
Levels 1-3 are roughly even because your barrels aren't fully online and Nasus only wants to farm — but he has to walk into melee range to last-hit Siphoning Strike, and that step-up is free Parrrley harass. Don't dump E barrels here; their cooldown is long early and he'll just path around them. Pistol him every time he reaches for a stack, respect that his level 1 auto-and-Q poke is real, and don't get baited into extended auto trades where his stacked Q hurts.
The full Gangplank 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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