Janna vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Janna
based on 4,227 Janna vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nautilus
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Janna versus Nautilus counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Janna typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Janna or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter to Nautilus.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Nautilusas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nautilus matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically gets a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Janna versus Nautilus build include Mikael's Blessing, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Nautilus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Nautilus as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Nautilus battles, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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