Elise vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Elise
based on 1,090 Elise vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Nautilus
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Elise against Nautilus counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Elise or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Nautilus, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Nautilusas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Elise versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Nautilus as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Elise vs Nautilus clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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