Varus vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Varus
based on 6,345 Varus vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Nautilus
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Varus vs. Nautilus counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Varus usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Varus or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Varus usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Varus makes a good counter to Nautilus.
While Varus does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Varus into Nautilus.
Moreover, Varus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Nautilus matchups, Varus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Varus is a decent counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often gets much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Varus versus Nautilus build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nautilus as Varus, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Varus vs Nautilus LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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