Naafiri vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Naafiri
based on 2,058 Naafiri vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Nautilus
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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.
Naafiri vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several vital Naafiri vs. Nautilus counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Naafiri into Nautilus.
Moreover, Naafiri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Nautilus matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually picks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Naafiri versus Nautilus build include Guardian Angel, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 50.8% battling Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nautilus as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Naafiri vs Nautilus counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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