Illaoi vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Illaoi
based on 3,101 Illaoi vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Nautilus
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Illaoi vs. Nautilus counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi 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.
Illaoi often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Nautilus.
Additionally, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Nautilus matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually accumulates much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Nautilus build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Hullbreaker. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Nautilus as Illaoi, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Illaoi vs Nautilus counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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