Leona vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Leona
based on 7,110 Leona vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Nautilus
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature several significant Leona against Nautilus matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Leona typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Leona or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 55.5% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Nautilus.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Nautilus.
Additionally, Leona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Nautilus matchups, Leona 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 teamfights.
Leona is a great counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona versus Nautilus build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 55.5% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nautilus as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Leona vs Nautilus counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.5% win rate overall.
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