Zed vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Zed
based on 5,792 Zed vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nautilus
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Zed versus Nautilus matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Zed or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed versus Nautilus build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nautilus as Zed, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Nautilus LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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