Wukong vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Wukong
based on 1,808 Wukong vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Wukong vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Wukong vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Wukong
Tips for Playing as Wukong against Nautilus
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Wukong in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Wukong against Nautilus matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Wukong’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Wukong may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Wukong typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Wukong and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Wukong or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Wukong usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Wukong makes a great counter to Nautilus.
While Wukong does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Wukong also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Wukong into Nautilus.
Moreover, Wukong also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Wukong vs Nautilus matchups, Wukong is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Wukong is a great counter for Nautilus. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Wukong against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Wukong to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Wukong typically accumulates more CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Wukong versus Nautilus build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Wukong boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Nautilus as Wukong, Wukong players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Wukong vs Nautilus counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.5% winrate overall.
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