How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Nasus · 50.19% win rate (746 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He out-scales your isolate once stacked — bully the early realm, but the longer it goes the more his Q buries you.
Track: Nasus's W — Wither (15–11s cooldown). His only kite. Bait it before R.
Read from Mordekaiser's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Nasus.
| 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."
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Mordekaiser's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Nobody on paper — a 50.19% win rate over 746 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Mordekaiser vs Nasus is a genuine skill matchup: 50.19% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Mordekaiser vs Nasus win rate is 50.19%, an even lane decided by execution.
Mordekaiser takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Overgrowth) vs Nasus.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Haunting Guise / Giant's Belt (≈900-1300g). Build Liandry's Torment (burn carries his extended trades) first, then Riftmaker (omnivamp turns the Realm 1v1 unloseable), with Plated Steelcaps (Swiftness into kite comps).
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