Nautilus vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Nautilus
based on 1,090 Nautilus vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Nautilus vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Nautilus vs. Elise matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Elise. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Elise
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Elise?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a good counter for Elise.
While Nautilus does have a higher win rate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Elise.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Elise matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nautilus is a decent counter for Elise. 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 Nautilus against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Elise. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nautilus versus Elise build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Elise than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Elise with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Elise as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nautilus vs Elise counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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