How to win lane as Nasus against Malphite · 53.85% win rate over 1,196 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Nasus | Malphite can only chip you with Seismic Shard at level 1 — last-hit with Siphoning Strike and start your stack engine uncontested. |
| Level 2 | Nasus | His level-2 has no all-in; your Soul Eater lifesteal out-sustains his Q poke while you keep stacking Q for free. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | It's a wash — he can W-up and trade his Q poke, you stack and heal it back, neither wins an extended fight yet. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Pure farming standoff: his early armor and W passive let him eat your low-stack Q, so it comes down to who plays the wave cleaner. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force is his one kill window — an unstoppable point-and-click knockup that wins the all-in or sets a gank if you don't respect it. |
| First item | Malphite | His first armor item plus W armor-stack lets him survive your empowered Q burst — his durability briefly outpaces your stack count here. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Fury of the Sands' percent-HP magic damage and your stacked Q shred his pure-armor build — Wither his ult and your lifesteal grinds him down 1v1. |
Malphite at levels 1-2 has zero kill pressure on you — his Seismic Shard (Q) just chips and slows, and his Soul Eater equivalent doesn't exist, so your lifesteal eats the poke. Stand in the wave and stack Siphoning Strike off every minion; he literally cannot stop you from farming. The one thing to mind is his Q slow setting up a jungle gank, so ward the river and don't overextend past the lane brush while he's pushing.
The full Nasus vs Malphite 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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