Nautilus vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Nautilus
based on 3,030 Nautilus vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Nautilus vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Nautilus vs. Xayah counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Xayah
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes an ok counter to Xayah.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Nautilus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Xayah.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nautilus is a somewhat poor counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually accumulates a lot less CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Xayah build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Xayah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Xayah as Nautilus, Nautilus players should take 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 players picked for Nautilus vs Xayah LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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