Bard vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Bard
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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
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.
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.
Bard vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several significant Bard against Nautilus matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus..
Bard normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Bard or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nautilus, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Nautilus matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying 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 truly master Bard in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Bard versus Nautilus build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Dead Man's Plate, and Shard of True Ice. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Nautilus as Bard, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Nautilus fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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