Nautilus vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nautilus
based on 1,366 Nautilus vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Bard
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Nautilus vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Nautilus vs. Bard counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Nautilus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Bard
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Bard?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when playing against Bard, with a 53.6% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a great counter for Bard.
While Nautilus does have a higher winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Nautilus into Bard.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Bard matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nautilus is a great counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nautilus versus Bard build consist of Evenshroud, Zeke's Convergence, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Nautilus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Bard than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 53.6% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Nautilus, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nautilus vs Bard counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Nautilus are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.