Malzahar vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Malzahar
based on 5,178 Malzahar vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Nautilus
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Malzahar vs. Nautilus counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Malzahar typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Nautilus.
Moreover, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Nautilus matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar most often racks up much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malzahar versus Nautilus build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Nautilus as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Malzahar vs Nautilus face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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