Nasus vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Nasus
based on 4,753 Nasus vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Nautilus
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several influential Nasus against Nautilus counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus 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.
Nasus normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Nasus or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Nautilus.
Additionally, Nasus also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Nautilus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nasus is an above average counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nasus versus Nautilus build include Thornmail, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Nautilus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 52.2% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nautilus as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nasus vs Nautilus fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Nasus are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.