Irelia vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Irelia
based on 4,212 Irelia vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Nautilus
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Irelia against Nautilus counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Irelia often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Irelia or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Nautilus, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Nautilus matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia 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 stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often picks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Irelia versus Nautilus build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 50.9% battling Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nautilus as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Irelia vs Nautilus fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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