Pyke vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Pyke
based on 5,807 Pyke vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Nautilus
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Advice to Win Against Nautilus
If Nautilus uses Riptide right next to you, hold in place until the ripple effect finishes before running. Running early will run straight into the secondary explosions, causing you to take additional damage and slow.
While Nautilus is shielded, he is capable of dealing large amounts of area of effect damage with his basic attacks - consider taking down the shield if you have time.
Pyke vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Pyke vs. Nautilus counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Pyke or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Pyke versus Nautilus build include Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Nautilus as Pyke, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Pyke vs Nautilus counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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