Nautilus vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nautilus
based on 1,406 Nautilus vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
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
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 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 here clarify several critical Nautilus vs. Kalista counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when taking on Kalista, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Nautilus does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nautilus into Kalista.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nautilus to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nautilus versus Kalista build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Kalista than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kalista as Nautilus, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nautilus vs Kalista counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Nautilus are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.