Lee Sin vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Lee Sin
based on 4,862 Lee Sin vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Nautilus
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Lee Sin against Nautilus counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Nautilus, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Lee Sin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lee Sin is a trash counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lee Sin versus Nautilus build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Nautilus as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lee Sin vs Nautilus clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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