Nasus vs Locke Counter Pick

A 62.1% win rate over 1,104 games on patch 16.13.1 is a wide margin attached to a sample worth trusting, and the causes are structural. Locke fights at 125 units, exactly where Nasus does, with no ranged option, so this is a straight melee exchange and sustain settles it. Soul Eater gives Nasus permanent life steal, Siphoning Strike grows every time it finishes a target, and Wither strips the attack speed that Silver Stake needs to convert missing health into on-hit magic damage.

• Soul Ignition damages Locke while it runs and only heals a portion back at the end, so contesting during that window is favourable.
• Spirit Fire cuts armor on anything standing inside it, and Locke holds 32 base to Nasus’s 34, 103.4 at level 18 to 113.9.
• Purgatory can execute outright, which makes retreating at low health more dangerous than fighting through it.
• Nasus moves at 350 to Locke’s 340, enough to reach a contested camp first.

Ashen Pursuit teleports before dashing into its next target, so vision on flanking routes matters more here than clean pathing does. Health totals sit close at level 18, 2,418 to 2,508, meaning the stack count on Siphoning Strike is the variable that actually decides late skirmishes. Full kit: Locke.