Ahri vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Ahri
based on 4,713 Ahri vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Nautilus
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Ahri against Nautilus matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Ahri typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Ahri or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Nautilus.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average picks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ahri versus Nautilus build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nautilus as Ahri, you should equip 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 players picked for Ahri vs Nautilus battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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