Thresh vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Thresh
based on 6,987 Thresh vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Nautilus
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Thresh versus Nautilus matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Thresh usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Thresh or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nautilus, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Nautilus matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh 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 presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Nautilus build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nautilus as Thresh, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Thresh vs Nautilus clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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