How to win lane as Pantheon against Nasus · 52.16% win rate over 717 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | You have one of the strongest level-1s in the game — point-and-click W stun damage beats his bare Q before he has any wither. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | Your level-2 spike (W+Q) lands a hard all-in while he still has no W wither to slow your attack speed. |
| Level 3 | Pantheon | With all three basics online — W stun, empowered-Q burst, Aegis Assault block — you own a premier kill window and poke him off every Q stack. |
| Levels 4-5 | Pantheon | Empowered-Q poke and E damage-block keep you favored; his Siphoning Strike stacks and E shred are still too small to threaten you. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Grand Starfall is built for roams over 1v1, so the lane evens out — you trade map pressure for his uninterrupted farming. |
| First item | Nasus | His first item and stacked Q flip the duel — W wither slows you and his Siphoning Strike now out-damages your plateauing burst. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | A scaled Nasus out-sustains you outright — R lifesteal, titanic HP and armor shred ignore your shields and wither you out of every fight. |
Levels 1-3 are your whole game and you crush them. At level 1 your point-and-click W stun plus a Comet Spear tap already beats him, and your level-2 all-in lands before he ever has W wither to cripple your attack speed. Tip-Q him every time he steps up to last-hit a minion so his Siphoning Strike stacks crawl — a denied Nasus is a dead Nasus. Watch only for his W: if he withers you mid-trade, back off rather than flailing through the attack-speed slow.
The full Pantheon 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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