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Nasus Baron Lane Wild Rift Guide
Who counters Nasus in Wild Rift? The toughest Nasus Baron lane counters are Teemo, Garen, and Jayce. Full Nasus Baron Lane counters and matchups, plus the best build, runes, and game plan for Patch 7.2c.
Overview
Nasus plays a different game than his lane opponent. Every minion killed with Siphoning Strike makes that hit permanently stronger, so while everyone else trades health bars, Nasus builds permanent damage. Give him twenty quiet minutes and his Q one-shots squishies while his tank items soak whatever they answer with. Wither is his other signature: a slow so heavy it basically removes an auto-attacker or a diver from a fight while everyone else keeps playing. Add an ultimate that makes him bigger and far tankier, and late-game Nasus is very hard to stop. The cost is one of the worst early games in the lane. He is slow, low on damage, and every bully in the roster wants to punish his pick. Nasus games are about surviving the first minutes while keeping his stacks going.
Strengths
- Infinite scaling: his stacking Q eventually out-damages champions who built full damage items, on a tank.
- Wither cripples a carry or duelist for a whole fight, working as peel and kill pressure at once.
- Self-sufficient and hard to shut down as long as waves keep arriving and he keeps last-hitting.
Weaknesses
- Very weak early game, easy to poke, zone, and dive before his stacks and items arrive.
- No mobility, so ranged kiting frustrates him at every stage of the game.
- Needs time: a team that ends the game fast leaves his whole plan unfinished.
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Nasus Baron Lane Counters
Who counters Nasus Baron Lane in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Nasus in the Baron lane matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Teemo: The blind makes your empowered last hits miss, which attacks your stacking directly, and his poke taxes the farming you have to do. Your late game still beats his.
- Garen: The silence interrupts your Wither timing and his regen erases your trade attempts, so he owns the early lane. His burst falls behind once your stacks and tank items grow.
- Jayce: Ranged poke punishes the one thing you must do, walking up to last-hit, and he stays out of the range your whole kit depends on.
- Renekton: He is strongest exactly when you are weakest, and his fury combo plus stun denies the stacks your game is built on. His strength fades later while yours keeps growing.
Champions Nasus Is Strong Against
Nasus's best matchups in Wild Rift. Nasus holds an edge against these picks in the Baron lane role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Kayle: Her melee phase is easy to bully off the wave, and even when she out-scales, Wither turns her ranged carry form into a stationary target.
- Yasuo: Windwall does not block Wither, and a slowed Yasuo loses the movement his whole champion needs.
- Tryndamere: His whole kit is critical strikes and chasing, and a single Wither guts both at once, even during his undying ultimate. He cannot fight while he can barely move or attack.
- Jax: Wither switches off the attack speed and stickiness his whole duel runs on, his dodge means little when one empowered Q is your trade, and your stacks out-scale him.
Early Game
Your job is one line: stack without dying. Take every last hit you safely can with Q, give up trades that do not threaten your farm, and hold Wither to stop all-ins instead of using it to duel. Against bullies, farm under tower and accept the missed minions; a death costs your timeline more than a slow wave ever will. Boring, patient, and correct is a winning Nasus lane.
Mid Game
Around your first tank item and a healthy stack count, you stop being a pure farmer and become a threat. Your ultimate turns skirmishes into fights you anchor: pop it, Wither their best damage dealer, and let the bonus health soak their burst. Keep stacking between fights, since every wave still adds permanent damage, and start roaming mid for picks, because people underestimate how hard your Q already hits.
Late Game
This is the game you were promised. With big stacks and full tank items you soak huge damage at the front, your Q deletes whoever it lands on, and Wither takes their hypercarry out of the fight. Walk at the fight, slow the most dangerous thing in it, and swing. The last piece is target selection: Q the squishy in reach, not the tank in front. Your scaling never stops, so a stalled game is still a won one.
Teamfights
Open with Wither on the enemy's win condition, usually their main carry or the assassin eyeing your backline, and they can barely move or attack for the whole fight. Pop your ultimate as you commit, soak the damage with your bonus health, and walk through bodies until your Q reaches a squishy target. You do not flank; you arrive, you slow, you swing. At this stage the enemy has very few answers.