How to win lane as Nasus against Neeko · 51.59% win rate over 283 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Her Q (Blooming Burst) double-pops to poke me off stacks, but with no R and only one combo she can't actually kill me through Soul Eater lifesteal — pure farm stand-off. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still no Wither for me and no real all-in for her; she pokes, I soak Siphoning Strike, neither commits. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | I get Wither at 3 to punish overextension, but her Q poke and E (Tangle-Barbs) root still out-range my melee — even trade window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Neeko | Pre-6 she out-pokes and can E-root into harass while I'm hoarding stacks with no ult to answer — she edges the cs war here. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Her R (Pop Blossom) stun-burst threatens to chunk me, but my Wither shuts the channel and Fury of the Sands DPS answers — genuine coinflip on who lands first. |
| First item | Nasus | Sheen/Iceborn empowered Q plus Wither's slow lets me stick through her clone juke and shred a squishy mage — my clearest window. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Late she stops side-laning and uses E root + R off a clone to pick me before my single-target ult matters — splitpush mine, but she trades it for roams. |
Neeko's whole early plan is her Q (Blooming Burst) — it blossoms a second time if the first hit lands on a minion or champ, so she farms and pokes you in one cast while I'm trying to soak Siphoning Strike stacks. I have no Wither until 3 and no ult, so I just eat a little poison and let Soul Eater lifesteal grind it back through last-hits. Don't walk up to trade autos into her Q range — there's nothing to win there, I'm only here to stack. At 3 I get Wither, which lets me peel a gank or punish her if she face-checks, but I still lose extended pokes.
The full Nasus vs Neeko 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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