How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Nasus · 46.15% win rate (247 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He farms your turret poke under tower and out-scales your zone. Deny stacks early or he 1v1s you late.
Track: Nasus's W — Wither (15–11s cooldown). His only kite. Poke before it.
Read from Heimerdinger's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Nasus.
| 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.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Heimerdinger's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Nasus, slightly — Heimerdinger wins 46.15% of 247 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Nasus has a small statistical edge (53.85% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Nasus has the slight edge (Heimerdinger wins 46.15%), though it stays close.
Heimerdinger takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Nasus.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Liandry's Torment (turret burn) first, then Rylai's Crystal Scepter, with Sorcerer's Shoes.
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