How to win lane as Nasus against Pantheon · 52.38% win rate over 504 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | No Wither, no ult, and his passive blocks your Q autos — he wins the level-1 trade and you just soak farm. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | His empowered Q spears plus W stun out-damage anything you can do back; last-hit with Q and concede. |
| Level 3 | Pantheon | Wither at 3 helps you survive his all-in, but his passive block and Q poke still win extended trades. |
| Levels 4-5 | Pantheon | He out-poks and out-trades you levels 4-5 while you hoard stacks and play not to die. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Fury of the Sands plus Wither lets you survive or flip his W-Q all-in — the lane levels out here. |
| First item | Nasus | Sheen plus stacked Q makes your empowered Q out-duel a Pantheon who is already falling off. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | Your infinite Q scaling and ult crush a hard-fallen-off Pantheon in any sustained 1v1 or splitpush. |
Pantheon owns these levels and you cannot fight him — his W is a point-click stun that locks you for his empowered Q spear combo, and his passive blocks your Q autos outright, so trading back is a losing proposition. Just soak Q farm and eat the Q poke; don't step up to last-hit into a stun you can't answer. The one thing in your favor is your Soul Eater lifesteal heals the chip damage between his cooldowns, so as long as you don't die you stay even on the map.
The full Nasus vs Pantheon 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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