How to win lane as Nasus against Lillia · 48.4% win rate over 469 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither of you can kill the other at level 1 — you soak Siphoning Strike (Q) farm while she stacks her passive DOT, so it's a true wash and you just want stacks. |
| Level 2 | Lillia | She gets E seed bounce online and kites your Wither range, burning you with her passive every time you step up for a Q last-hit. |
| Level 3 | Lillia | Her W bramble plus E mobility lets her chunk your fat HP bar from outside Wither range while you're stuck hoarding stacks and playing not to die. |
| Levels 4-5 | Lillia | Levels 4-5 stay hers — she out-kites your slow and her passive DOT grinds you down faster than Soul Eater can heal a melee you can't land. |
| Level 6 | Lillia | Her Lilting Lullaby (R) sleep can burst the bonus HP off your Fury of the Sands before it works, or guarantee a gank — she owns the level-6 window. |
| First item | Lillia | Her first item deepens the burn-and-kite poke, and she still dashes out of Wither on E, so she controls the trade tempo until you out-scale. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Your stacked Siphoning Strike plus Wither's huge slow finally pins her, and Soul Eater lifesteal out-grinds her DOT — by 2+ items you run an off-meta AP frame down. |
Level 1 is a genuine wash — neither of us kills the other, so I just soak Siphoning Strike (Q) farm and start stacking while she ramps her passive DOT. The trouble starts the moment she has E seed and W bramble: every time I walk up for a Q last-hit she bounces a seed off me and burns me with her passive, and my Wither isn't enough to pin a champion built entirely around movement speed. Don't chase her around the wave — eat the chip, farm with Q, and accept that levels 1-3 belong to her kite.
The full Nasus vs Lillia 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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