Shen vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Shen
based on 2,911 Shen vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Nautilus
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Shen in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Shen vs. Nautilus matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus..
Shen typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shen and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Shen or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shen usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Shen does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Shen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shen into Nautilus.
Additionally, Shen has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Nautilus matchups, Shen is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shen is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shen against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen usually picks up much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Shen versus Nautilus build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nautilus as Shen, you should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Shen vs Nautilus counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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