Aphelios vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Aphelios
based on 3,762 Aphelios vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Nautilus
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Aphelios vs. Nautilus matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often accumulates much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Nautilus build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Nautilus as Aphelios, Aphelios players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Aphelios vs Nautilus matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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