K'Sante vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as K'Sante
based on 2,546 K'Sante vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Nautilus
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here show some influential K'Sante against Nautilus matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus..
K'Sante usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking K'Sante into Nautilusas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average picks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your K'Sante versus Nautilus build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 49.2% battling Nautilus with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Nautilus as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for K'Sante vs Nautilus fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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