Galio vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Galio
based on 4,197 Galio vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Galio vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Galio vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Galio
Tips for Playing as Galio against Nautilus
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Galio in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Galio against Nautilus matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Galio often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Galio and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Galio or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Galio usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Galio makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Galio does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Galio also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Galio into Nautilus.
Moreover, Galio has some 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Galio vs Nautilus matchups, Galio is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Galio is a decent counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Galio against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Galio in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio usually accumulates much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Galio versus Nautilus build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nautilus as Galio, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Galio vs Nautilus fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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