Hecarim vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Hecarim
based on 3,980 Hecarim vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Nautilus
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Hecarim in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Hecarim versus Nautilus matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hecarim typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Nautilus, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Hecarim has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often gets a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Hecarim versus Nautilus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Nautilus as Hecarim, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Hecarim vs Nautilus matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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