Kai'Sa vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Kai'Sa
based on 6,771 Kai'Sa vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Nautilus
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Kai'Sa against Nautilus counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Nautilus, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Nautilus.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Nautilus.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Nautilus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Nautilus Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average racks up much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Nautilus build consist of Statikk Shiv, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Nautilus as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Nautilus battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Kai'Sa are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.