How to win lane as Nasus against Yone · 49.67% win rate over 1,071 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yone's Q1/Q2 poke matches your level 1, but you're equally happy to just farm Q stacks through Soul Eater lifesteal — neither side wins this. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | He can poke with W spirit-cleave but has no all-in yet, and your lifesteal eats the chip — even. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Wither answers his Q3 dash and you have no ult, so neither of you can commit a real kill — genuinely a coin flip on the trade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | His mobility and Q1/Q2 poke edge these levels — you can't pin a kiting Yone without Wither up, so you concede and farm. |
| Level 6 | Nasus | Fury of the Sands plus Wither is the one window he can't kite — slowed to zero, he eats your AoE burn and lifesteal in a duel he can't escape. |
| First item | Even / skill | His crit items and your Sheen/Iceborn spike roughly cancel — he kites better, you hit harder per Q, so it stays even. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Fed crit Yone's Q3 knockup into R out-skirmishes your stacked Q and his mobility re-engages at will — he owns extended fights at 2+ items. |
Yone is genuinely even with you at levels 1-3, which for you means you concede nothing but also can't punish — he pokes with Q1/Q2 and the W spirit-cleave, and if you walk up to throw a raw Q he just dances back. Don't trade for the sake of it: last-hit with Siphoning Strike, soak the poke on Soul Eater lifesteal, and start hoarding stacks. The one moment to wake up is his level 3 Q3 dash — if he commits the third Q for the knockup, Wither him mid-dash so his spirit-cleave whiffs and his E-rewind can't pull him out clean.
The full Nasus vs Yone 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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