Caitlyn vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Caitlyn
based on 15,813 Caitlyn vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Nautilus
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Caitlyn vs. Nautilus counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Caitlyn typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when taking on Nautilus, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Caitlyn makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Caitlyn does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Nautilus.
Additionally, Caitlyn has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Caitlyn is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Caitlyn in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn usually accumulates much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Caitlyn versus Nautilus build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nautilus as Caitlyn, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Caitlyn vs Nautilus battles, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
If you want to get Caitlyn versus Nautilus tips and builds for a a specific player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and strategies shown are computed using all games finished with these champs.