Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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 here clarify some valuable Ezreal versus Nautilus matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Ezreal normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually fairs equally well when taking on Nautilus, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Ezreal does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ezreal 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, Ezreal has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ezreal against Nautilus.
If you would like to truly master Ezreal 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal usually gets much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ezreal versus Nautilus build consist of Muramana, Ravenous Hydra, and Serylda's Grudge. When Ezreal used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average winrate of 49.1% battling Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nautilus as Ezreal, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ezreal vs Nautilus LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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