Alistar vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Alistar
based on 3,357 Alistar vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Nautilus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Alistar against Nautilus counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Alistar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Alistar or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Nautilus matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is an above average counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Alistar versus Nautilus build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nautilus as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Alistar vs Nautilus face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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