Nami vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Nami
based on 4,371 Nami vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Nautilus
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Nami in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Nami against Nautilus matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nautilus..
Nami typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Nami or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Nami makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Nami does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Nami into Nautilus.
Additionally, Nami also has a very large 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nami is a decent counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami 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 shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami usually picks up less CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nami versus Nautilus build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Nautilus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 50.0% battling Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Nautilus as Nami, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nami vs Nautilus fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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