Riven vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Riven
based on 4,802 Riven vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Nautilus
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Riven vs. Nautilus matchup stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Riven or Nautilus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nautilus, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Nautilusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically gets much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven versus Nautilus build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Nautilus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Nautilus as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Nautilus battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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