Rakan vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Rakan
based on 5,101 Rakan vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Nautilus
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Rakan versus Nautilus matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Rakan often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Rakan or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rakan usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes a good counter to Nautilus.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Nautilus.
Additionally, Rakan also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Nautilus matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rakan is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rakan against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Nautilus build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Frozen Heart. When Rakan bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Nautilus as Rakan, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rakan vs Nautilus face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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