Syndra vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Syndra
based on 3,532 Syndra vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Nautilus
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Syndra vs. Nautilus counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Syndra usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Syndra or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Syndra does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Syndra into Nautilusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Nautilus matchups, Syndra is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Syndra is a decent counter for Nautilus. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Syndra usually picks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Syndra versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Nautilus as Syndra, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Syndra vs Nautilus counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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