Katarina vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Katarina
based on 5,450 Katarina vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nautilus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Katarina against Nautilus matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Nautilus, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Nautilusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average picks up much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.9% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Nautilus as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Nautilus counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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