How to win lane as Nasus against Cho'Gath · 51.6% win rate over 407 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | His Q knockup and your Q stacking both want the same minions, but neither of you can punish the other at level 1 — pure farm stand-off. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still even — he can't all-in without a gank and you out-sustain his poke, so just keep stacking through it. |
| Level 3 | Cho'Gath | He gets Q-W online: a ruptured Q into silence interrupts your stack and wins the trade before your Wither matters. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cho'Gath | Pre-Sheen you lose the extended trade — his Q-W combo plus minion damage out-trades your empty Q, so concede and farm. |
| Level 6 | Cho'Gath | Feast (R) is a flat percent-HP true-damage execute — at 6 he can delete you below the threshold, so never fight him chunked. |
| First item | Cho'Gath | His tank body still shrugs off your un-empowered Q while his R threat looms — keep stacking and don't force the all-in. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | With stacks plus Sheen and ult, Wither shuts off his Q-W and your empowered Q grinds through his HP faster than his R can answer — you finally own the duel. |
Neither of us does anything level 1-2 — I last-hit for Q stacks, he last-hits for Feast stacks, and we both just get fat. Respect his Q knockup, though: if he lands the ruptured Q it sets up his W silence, and a silence on me means no Wither, no E, no escape while he autos. Don't greed a Q stack standing on top of him at low levels — eat the poke and keep farming, my sustain holds.
The full Nasus vs Cho'Gath 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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