Nautilus vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Nautilus
based on 549 Nautilus vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Nautilus vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Nautilus against Skarner matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Skarner. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Skarner
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Skarner?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when playing against Skarner, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes an ok counter to Skarner.
While Nautilus does have a higher winrate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Skarner.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Skarner matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar 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 decent counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Skarner. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nautilus versus Skarner build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Skarner with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Skarner 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 picked for Nautilus vs Skarner counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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