Nautilus vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Nautilus
based on 9,925 Nautilus vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Nautilus vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Nautilus in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Nautilus versus Brand matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Brand
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Nautilus does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Brand.
Additionally, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a terribly counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically racks up less CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nautilus versus Brand build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Brand than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when playing against Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Brand as Nautilus, you should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nautilus vs Brand counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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