Garen vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Garen
based on 5,660 Garen vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Nautilus
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Garen against Nautilus matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Garen normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Garen or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Nautilus, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Nautilus.
Additionally, Garen 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen usually racks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Garen versus Nautilus build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Garen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Nautilus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Nautilus as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Garen vs Nautilus fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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