Jax vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Jax
based on 11,225 Jax vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Nautilus
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Jax in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Jax against Nautilus counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Jax normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Jax or Nautilus?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jax usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a good counter to Nautilus.
While Jax does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Jax also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Jax into Nautilus.
Additionally, Jax also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jax vs Nautilus matchups, Jax is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Jax is an above average counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Jax against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax on average racks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Jax versus Nautilus build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nautilus as Jax, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Jax vs Nautilus fights, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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