Gragas vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Gragas
based on 2,723 Gragas vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Nautilus
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Gragas vs. Nautilus matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Gragas often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Gragas or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Nautilus, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Nautilus.
Moreover, Gragas 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually accumulates much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Gragas versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nautilus as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas vs Nautilus matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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