Yorick vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Yorick
based on 3,669 Yorick vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yorick vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Yorick vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Yorick
Tips for Playing as Yorick against Nautilus
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Yorick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Yorick versus Nautilus counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Yorick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yorick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Yorick often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yorick and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Yorick or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yorick usually wins when facing off against Nautilus, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Yorick makes a good counter to Nautilus.
While Yorick does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Yorick also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yorick into Nautilus.
Moreover, Yorick 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yorick vs Nautilus matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yorick is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yorick against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yorick most often picks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yorick versus Nautilus build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Nautilus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Nautilus as Yorick, Yorick players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Yorick vs Nautilus counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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