Nautilus vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Nautilus
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Nautilus vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Zac
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 Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Nautilus vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Nautilus against Zac matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zac..
Nautilus typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Zac
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Zac?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when playing against Zac, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a poor counter to Zac.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate compared to Zac, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Zac.
Moreover, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a garbage counter to Zac. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus most often gets less CS as Zac. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nautilus versus Zac build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Zac than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing against Zac with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Zac as Nautilus, Nautilus players 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 builds players chose for Nautilus vs Zac counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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