How to win lane as Nasus against Yasuo · 55.62% win rate (1,370 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Wither his mobility — farm stacks and out-scale his snowball.
Track: Yasuo's W — Wind Wall (25–17s cooldown). Blocks projectiles — not your melee. Trade through it.
Read from Nasus's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yasuo.
This is Nasus's own plan; across 1,370 pooled games the lane is Nasus-favoured.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | Yasuo dashes through minions for Sweeping Blade poke. Wind Wall cannot touch Spirit Fire — that is a zone, not a projectile. |
| Level 2 | Yasuo | Still no Wither, so his flow-stacking dashes and E-Q poke control the lane while you soak farm. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Wither comes online and shuts off his attack-speed crit and dash flow, but with no ult yet it's a coin-flip even trade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Nasus | A Withered Yasuo loses his move speed and DPS — you out-grind his squishy frame with stacked Q and Soul Eater lifesteal. |
| Level 6 | Nasus | Last Breath needs an airborne target — dodge the two-stack Steel Tempest whirlwind and his ultimate cannot start. |
| First item | Nasus | Your Sheen/Iceborn Q burst plus Wither one-shots a pre-crit Yasuo — force every all-in here. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | Full-crit Yasuo with Windwall out-DPSs your HP bar and blanks your E — he hard-outscales, so group and never 1v1 him. |
Yasuo owns the first two levels — he dashes through the minion wave for Sweeping Blade into Steel Tempest poke. But Wind Wall does not eat Spirit Fire: it blocks projectiles, and Spirit Fire is a ground zone, so keep casting it through the wall for free chip and armor shred. Soul Eater heals most of his poke anyway. At level 3 the lane flips: Wither slows his move and attack speed, killing the crit autos that are his entire damage.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Nasus's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Nasus vs Yasuo 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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Nasus — a 55.62% win rate vs Yasuo in top lane over 1,370 games is a real advantage.
Not really — Nasus holds a real statistical advantage (55.62% win rate), so Yasuo is the one working uphill.
Statistically yes — Nasus counters Yasuo in top lane, winning 55.62% of 1,370 Emerald+ games.
Nasus takes Fleet Footwork on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Unflinching) vs Yasuo.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Sheen (≈900g) — every Q after this hits twice as hard. Build Trinity Force (Iceborn Gauntlet if you need the slow + armor) first, then Frozen Heart (his attack speed dies here), with Plated Steelcaps.
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