How to win lane as Illaoi against Nasus · 51.24% win rate over 1,409 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Illaoi | Level 1 you out-body Nasus, who has no escape and only wants to farm. |
| Level 2 | Illaoi | Level 2 keeps you ahead as your swings punish his passive stacking. |
| Level 3 | Illaoi | Level 3 gives you E and W to grab and slam a champion with no way out. |
| Levels 4-5 | Illaoi | Through Levels 4-5 you zone him off the wave and starve his Q stacks. |
| Level 6 | Illaoi | At Level 6 your R field lets you dive and bury him despite his Wither slow. |
| First item | Illaoi | At first item you out-slam an under-stacked Nasus and deny his scaling. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Into 2+ items a stacked Nasus with R out-sustains your tentacles and out-DPS's you. |
You dominate the early game — Nasus has no escape and desperately wants to farm, so every E grab and tentacle slam both chunks him and denies the Q stacks his whole game depends on.
The full Illaoi 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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