Sona vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Sona
based on 3,586 Sona vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Nautilus
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Sona against Nautilus matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nautilus..
Sona normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Sona or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually loses when playing against Nautilus, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Sona does have a lower winrate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Nautilus.
Moreover, Sona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Sona versus Nautilus build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Dawncore. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 48.5% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Nautilus as Sona, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sona vs Nautilus fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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