Nasus
Hardest matchups for Nasus in Top (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Aurelion Sol, 
Mordekaiser, 
Urgot. Easiest: 
Smolder, 
Vayne, 
Corki.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into NasusOn the pro tier list
Nasus on patch 16.22
- Top50.7%#34 of 103B8,222 games
- Mid50.7%#35 of 91B1,185 games
- steady since 16.21
Nasus’s main role on patch 16.22 is Top: a 50.7% win rate across 8,222 Emerald games, #34 of 103 Top champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 3.3% of games. Nasus is also played Mid: a 50.7% win rate across 1,185 games, #35 of 91. Since patch 16.21, Nasus Top has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.1 points across 68,133 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top81% of its games | B | 50.2%50.3% raw ±0.6 | 28,153 | 4.0%15.9% banned | 51.3%47.2% first time |
| Mid15% of its games | B | 50.4%50.4% raw ±1.4 | 5,127 | 0.7%15.9% banned | 51.3%49.5% first time |
| Jungle3% of its games | D | 46.9%44.2% raw ±2.9 | 1,139 | 0.2%15.9% banned | 49.8%45.9% first time |
| Support1% of its games | too few games | 48.4%44.0% raw ±5.2 | 359 | 0.1%15.9% banned | 51.3%46.8% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 49.1%39.5% raw ±10.6 | 86 | 0.0%15.9% banned | 51.3%46.7% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Nasus’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Nasus, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Nasus
Lane leads and team bans
What Nasus’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Nasus than the other team does in the same games (258,468 games). The other team banned before Nasus was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Nasus was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Nasus is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AD bruiser
53.1%18,101 games - Tank
52.3%5,490 games - Crit
52.5%2,258 games - AP sustained
51.4%202 games - AP burst
51.9%122 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Nasus does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
30,510 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ghost51.0% · 6,798 games
Fleet FootworkPrecision + Resolve · 51.0%
Presence of Mind · Legend: Haste · Last Stand · Second Wind · UnflinchingShards: Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Tenacity and Slow Resist
Start: Doran's Shield + Health Potion · 53.1%
Key items: Trinity Force → Frozen Heart · 53.4%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 53.7%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ghost51.0%6,798 games · 22% pick rate · same players: +2.0 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Ignite49.8%624 games · 2.1% pick rate · same players: +0.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Ghost + Teleport50.0%15,240 games · 50% pick rate · the usual choice- Flash + Teleport50.4%6,685 games · 22% pick rate · same players: −0.3 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Fleet Footwork + Resolve51.0%22,212 games · 73% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Stormraider's Surge + Resolve51.3%661 games · 2.2% pick rate · same players: −1.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Summon Aery + Inspiration44.6%1,219 games · 4.0% pick rate · same players: −2.9 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Stormraider's Surge + Inspiration46.8%2,565 games · 8.4% pick rate · same players: −3.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Fleet Footwork
- Presence of Mind53.6%10% take it
Triumph50.8%86% take it
Absorb Life48.8%3.6% take it
- Legend: Haste51.1%98% take it
- Last Stand51.1%96% take it
Coup de Grace48.9%2.3% take it
Cut Down49.0%2.1% take it
- Second Wind51.0%91% take it
- Unflinching50.8%85% take it
Overgrowth52.4%8.1% take it
Bone Plating51.0%6.7% take it
Revitalize52.3%5.9% take it
- Ability Haste51.2%82% take it
- Adaptive Force45.2%14% take it
- Attack Speed48.6%4.2% take it
- Health Scaling50.7%73% take it
- Adaptive Force46.5%18% take it
- Move Speed53.6%9.0% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist51.7%11% take it
- Health Scaling49.9%83% take it
- Health51.1%6.1% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Nasus’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Nasus’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Nasus does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Nasus wins 49.1%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.7%. That gap ranks it 134 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 8K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Nasus in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 50.5%8W 5L | 1%1% in any lane | 92% counter | −170 gold | — |
| Top | 50.6%6W 2L | 1%1% in any lane | 88% counter | −1,064 gold | — |
How much knowing Nasus pays
Players on their Mastery band win 3.6 points more on Nasus than first-timers do: #134 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Nasus players win 52.7%: #59 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 52.7%, and is half-way up by ~20K points.
NasusDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Nasus ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Garen, Malphite, Darius.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.