Graves vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Graves
based on 7,066 Graves vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Nautilus
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Graves against Nautilus matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Graves often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Graves or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Graves into Nautilus.
Additionally, Graves also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Nautilus matchups, Graves is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Graves is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Graves against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average picks up more CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Graves versus Nautilus build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Nautilus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.8% battling Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Nautilus as Graves, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Graves vs Nautilus clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Graves are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.