You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Aurelion Sol vs. Nautilus matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Aurelion Sol makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Aurelion Sol does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Aurelion Sol also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Aurelion Sol into Nautilusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aurelion Sol 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol vs Nautilus matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Aurelion Sol is an above average counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Nautilus.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aurelion Sol to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol most often picks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Aurelion Sol versus Nautilus build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol had an average win rate of 52.7% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Nautilus as Aurelion Sol, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Aurelion Sol vs Nautilus clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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