How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Nasus · 51.32% win rate over 228 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Nasus | You have one turret charge and no grenade at level 1, so you concede the contact window while Nasus freely starts his Siphoning Strike stacks. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Once your charges bank and the slowing beams come online at 2-3 it is a knife-edge: a Wither-less Nasus must eat beam damage to farm, but he still gets to last-hit, so the trade is genuinely even. |
| Level 3 | Heimerdinger | With three banked charges the lane is zoned, you tax every Q he reaches for, and your W-rocket poke punishes him for entering the nest at all — your damage base peaks here. |
| Levels 4-5 | Heimerdinger | Three turret charges plus the CH-3X center-stun make any pre-Wither all-in suicidal, and you can wall him off his caster minions entirely. |
| Level 6 | Heimerdinger | UPGRADE!!! into a super-turret keeps the wave dead and his plates leaking while his R is on cooldown — your architecture still out-zones a Nasus who hasn't finished stacking. |
| First item | Nasus | His R gives lifesteal and bonus size to facetank a nest, and Wither lets him commit through the beams, so once he hits 6 with stacks the all-in swings to him. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | A free-farmed Nasus stacks Q infinitely, Wither bricks your move and attack speed, and his E shreds the turrets, so he out-scales the entire nest economy at two items. |
Level 1 is his, not yours — you have one turret charge and no grenade, so don't contest the first wave; just stand on his caster minions so he has to eat your turret beam to start stacking Siphoning Strike. Once your charges bank and the slowing beams come online at 2-3 you flip it: a Nasus with no Wither yet has to walk into the nest to last-hit, and every Q he grabs eats turret damage plus your W-rocket poke. Bank charges and deny stacks — a Nasus who is even one CS-rotation behind on Siphoning Strike is a Nasus whose late comes online later.
The full Heimerdinger 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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