Nautilus vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Nautilus
based on 1,452 Nautilus vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Nautilus vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Nautilus in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Nautilus versus Ryze counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Ryze
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Ryze?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ryze, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Nautilus makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Nautilus does have a lower winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Nautilus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Ryze.
Moreover, Nautilus has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a somewhat poor counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nautilus
Additional Information for Nautilus Players
How We Calculated Our Nautilus vs Ryze Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nautilus to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nautilus versus Ryze build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Ryze as Nautilus, Nautilus players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nautilus vs Ryze counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Nautilus are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.