Nautilus vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Nautilus
based on 4,611 Nautilus vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Nautilus vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Nautilus against Vi counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Vi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Vi
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Vi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when taking on Vi, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a bad counter for Vi.
While Nautilus does have a much lower winrate than Vi, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nautilus into Vi.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a garbage counter to Vi. Focus your play 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 Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nautilus to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Vi. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nautilus versus Vi build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Vi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 45.8% battling Vi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Vi as Nautilus, you should use 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 we have analyed for Nautilus vs Vi battles, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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