Bard vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Bard
based on 4,508 Bard vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Nautilus
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Bard against Nautilus counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus..
Bard typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Bard or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Nautilus, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Nautilus.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Nautilus matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Bard versus Nautilus build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Nautilus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.3% when playing against Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nautilus as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Bard vs Nautilus matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.3% win rate overall.
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