Kayle vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Kayle
based on 4,649 Kayle vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Nautilus
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable Kayle against Nautilus counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Kayle or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Nautilusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Nautilus matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a good counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average picks up much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Nautilus as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kayle vs Nautilus matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Kayle are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.