How to win lane as Yasuo against Nasus · 45.81% win rate over 919 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | Level 1 is yours — Nasus is a gapless melee farmer you out-poke with Q and out-move with E. |
| Level 2 | Yasuo | Level 2 stays yours: your second point makes trades one-sided against a stat-check farmer. |
| Level 3 | Yasuo | Level 3 you win — Sweeping Blade dashes let you all-in a Nasus who can't disengage. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yasuo | Levels 4-5 favour you as your Q stacks toward the tornado and he's still ramping. |
| Level 6 | Yasuo | Level 6 is yours: Last Breath kills before his Wither+stacks combo is online. |
| First item | Yasuo | First item you keep the edge — crit Yasuo out-duels a tank-buying, under-stacked Nasus. |
| Two+ items | Nasus | 2+ items flips to Nasus: full stacks, Fury of the Sands and 90% Wither make him unkillable. |
You dominate levels 1-2: Nasus is a slow melee farmer with no gap-closer, so double-Q'd Steel Tempest and Sweeping Blade auto-resets let you poke him off cs freely. Zone him from caster minions to deny early Siphoning Strike stacks.
The full Yasuo 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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