Sylas vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Sylas
based on 5,640 Sylas vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Nautilus
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Sylas against Nautilus matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Sylas usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Sylas or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Sylas does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Sylas 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 Sylas into Nautilus.
Additionally, Sylas also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Nautilus matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a decent counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically racks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sylas versus Nautilus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Nautilus as Sylas, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Sylas vs Nautilus battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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