Akshan vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Akshan
based on 3,008 Akshan vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Nautilus
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Nautilus
If Nautilus uses Riptide right next to you, hold in place until the ripple effect finishes before running. Running early will run straight into the secondary explosions, causing you to take additional damage and slow.
While Nautilus is shielded, he is capable of dealing large amounts of area of effect damage with his basic attacks - consider taking down the shield if you have time.
Akshan vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several critical Akshan versus Nautilus matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champions. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter to Nautilus.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Nautilus.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often gets much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Nautilus build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Nautilus as Akshan, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Akshan vs Nautilus matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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