How to win lane as Nasus against Sion · 48.82% win rate over 846 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Sion's charged Q knockup and E shield-break poke punish a level-1 Nasus who has no stacks, no Wither, and minimal lifesteal. |
| Level 2 | Sion | Still no Wither to answer his charged Q — he zones you off stacks with E's lingering damage and owns the trade. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Wither comes online — cancel his charged-Q knockup and walk out of his slow zone, leveling the lane. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Your stacks and lifesteal climb while his poke can't out-sustain you, but his charged Q keeps it a coinflip all-in. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Fury of the Sands lets you survive a committed all-in, yet his zombie passive and knockup keep it genuinely even. |
| First item | Nasus | Sheen/Iceborn plus Wither and ult out-grinds his shields in a sustained duel — Soul Eater heals through his poke. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | He scales tanky with real teamfight knockup while your Q wins side lanes — it's a splitpush race, not a clean 1v1. |
Sion owns these levels and you just have to eat it — his E shreds your shield and pokes you off the wave while you have no stacks, no Wither, and your Soul Eater lifesteal is still tiny. Do NOT walk into a charged Q; that knockup is a free poke combo and the only thing that turns his sustain-able poke into a real chunk. Last-hit at max range with Q and on E (Spirit Fire) for safe stacks, and respect that he can shove and roam. At level 3 your Wither flips the script on his all-in — slap it on mid-charge and his Q whiffs.
The full Nasus vs Sion 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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