How to win lane as Gangplank against Nasus · 52.84% win rate (723 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Bully him early — barrel-poke and deny stacks.
Track: Nasus's W — Wither (15–11s cooldown). His only kite. Cleanse it with Q.
Read from Gangplank's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Nasus.
| 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: Fury of the Sands burns max-Health damage armour cannot stop, a stacked Q one-shots, and Wither kills your kiting — 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 255-range melee 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, and back off on his auto wind-up: Siphoning Strike is an auto reset, so the swing lands before any cast tell.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Gangplank's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Gangplank, slightly — a 52.84% win rate edge over 723 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Gangplank has a small statistical edge (52.84% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Gangplank has a slight edge (52.84% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Gangplank takes Grasp of the Undying 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) — cuts his healing. Build Trinity Force (Sheen + barrel slow) first, then Infinity Edge, with Plated Steelcaps.
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