How to win lane as Neeko against Nasus · 48.41% win rate (283 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He has to wade through roots and blooms to farm — chunk every step-up and never get touched.
Track: Nasus's W — Wither (15–11s cooldown). His only answer to kiting — bait it before you commit.
Read from Neeko's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Nasus.
This is Neeko's own plan; across 283 pooled games the lane is leaning Nasus.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Neeko | Nasus has a top-tier safe level-1 and you have no combo yet — neither of you kills, so deny his Siphoning Strike last-hits and set the wave. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | You only have Q poke and he just farms through it with sustain — it's even because neither of you can commit without more tools. |
| Level 3 | Neeko | Your E root into Q gives a real trade, but Soul Eater (P) life steal heals your poke back and he has no all-in, so it's a wash. |
| Levels 4-5 | Neeko | You out-tempo a stackless Nasus here — shove with Q re-bloom to zone him off stacks and the cannon while he's weakest. |
| Level 6 | Neeko | Pop Blossom on a landed Tangle-Barbs is your hardest all-in before he has Sheen and stacks — but a clean dodge or early Wither makes it even. |
| First item | Even / skill | His Sheen plus Wither comes online — a stacked Q with an unkiteable slow out-chunks anything you can answer, and the lane flips to him. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | He's a hard scaler: 200+ stack Q with Wither one-shots your squishy body, but from max range as a teamfight bomb you can still trade relevance. |
Nasus is one of the safest level-1s in the game and you can't burst him yet — at levels 1-2 you only have Blooming Burst (Q), so farm and chip him when he steps up to last-hit with Siphoning Strike. Your real job is the wave: shove with Q's re-bloom so he's stuck under tower missing stacks and CS. Don't burn mana on single Q pokes hoping to zone him — Soul Eater (P) life steal heals it back from level 1, and you have no follow-up until level 3 when Tangle-Barbs (E) gives you a root-into-poke trade.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Neeko's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Neeko vs Nasus 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, slightly — Neeko wins 48.41% of 283 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Nasus has a small statistical edge (51.59% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Nasus has the slight edge (Neeko wins 48.41%), though it stays close.
Neeko takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Overgrowth) vs Nasus.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Stormsurge first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Plated Steelcaps.
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