How to win lane as Sion against Nasus · 51.85% win rate over 7,362 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Nasus has no Wither at level 1 and cannot move away from a charging Q — hit him before he hits 2. |
| Level 2 | Sion | W-shield plus a charged Q knockup before Wither is online gives you the cleanest damage trade in the lane. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Wither is up and Nasus has full kit, so both patterns cancel each other out — trade only around Wither's cooldown from here. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | He is stacking safely and your Q channel is visible from long range — freeze the wave and deny CS rather than force a telegraphed all-in. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Unstoppable Onslaught outruns the Wither slow at launch — fire R after he activates Wither to close before the speed penalty fully bites. |
| First item | Nasus | Nasus completes Sheen or Divine Sunderer and his empowered Q now one-shots your W-shield — respect his damage curve and stop short trading. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Both kits scale into the late game and Nasus's stacks are high enough to threaten — win conditions split; avoid the straight duel, play for objectives. |
At level 1 Nasus has no movement tool and his only defense is blocking your approach — walk toward him in the minion wave and start charging Q as he inevitably steps up to last-hit. A full charge knockup before Wither is online (level 2) is essentially free because he cannot move away during your windup. Level 2 is the key inflection: the moment he hits level 2 he has Wither, which cuts your movement and attack speed so severely that a channeling Q gets completely nullified. Your window before he levels W is your clearest aggression in the whole lane. From level 3 onward every charged Q attempt must account for Wither's 15-second cooldown — track it like your life depends on it, because it does.
The full Sion 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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