Samira vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Samira
based on 4,940 Samira vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Samira
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.
Samira vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Samira versus Nautilus counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Samira usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Samira or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Samira makes a great counter to Nautilus.
While Samira does have a much higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Samira also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Samira into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Samira also has only a small 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Samira vs Nautilus matchups, Samira is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Samira is a great counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often racks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have 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 focus on in your Samira versus Nautilus build include Immortal Shieldbow, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Samira bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Nautilus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 54.5% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Nautilus as Samira, Samira players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Samira vs Nautilus battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.5% winrate overall.
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