Nautilus vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nautilus
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Nautilus vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Kalista
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.
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Nautilus vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Nautilus versus Kalista counter stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Nautilus does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Kalista.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Kalista 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 late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nautilus versus Kalista build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Nautilus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Kalista as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Nautilus vs Kalista counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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