How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Nasus · 50.19% win rate over 746 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 neither of you has a real all-in — you have only Q, he only wants to farm — so trade Obliterate pokes and set up to deny his Q stacks. |
| Level 2 | Mordekaiser | Q+W come online while Nasus is still farm-only: single-target Obliterate poke plus a banked W shield bullies him off the wave and his Q last-hits. |
| Level 3 | Mordekaiser | With Q, W and the start of your aura you out-trade a Nasus whose only answer is a slow Wither and who can't disengage your Darkness Rise. |
| Levels 4-5 | Mordekaiser | Realm of Death banishes him from his minions and his jungler — a guaranteed clean 1v1 you take before his stacks come online. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Your magic-item spike out-DPSes a one-item Nasus, but his stacks are snowballing fast — this window is genuinely contested, not free. |
| First item | Nasus | Past two items his on-hit Q shreds through your W, R's bonus HP and lifesteal out-grind your aura, and Wither denies your kite — the lane is his now. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | He out-scales hard: infinite Q stacks plus R make him a juggernaut your flat HP-scaling aura can't out-DPS, so group instead of dueling. |
"Nasus has no level-1 all-in — he just wants to stand on the wave and last-hit for Q stacks. Punish that: throw single-target Obliterate (Q) to chunk him every time he steps up for a minion, especially the cannon. Once you hit 2-3 with Q and a banked W shield, you win every short trade he tries — he has only a slow Wither and no escape. Eat or bait the Wither, then walk him down. The real danger here isn't Nasus, it's a gank while you're committed, so respect his jungler more than him."
The full Mordekaiser 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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