Kha'Zix vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Kha'Zix
based on 4,229 Kha'Zix vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Nautilus
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Kha'Zix versus Nautilus counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kha'Zix often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kha'Zix usually loses when taking on Nautilus, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Kha'Zix makes a bad counter to Nautilus.
While Kha'Zix does have a lower win rate compared to Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Kha'Zix also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kha'Zix into Nautilus.
Additionally, Kha'Zix also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kha'Zix is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kha'Zix against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kha'Zix to counter Nautilus during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kha'Zix versus Nautilus build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kha'Zix incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nautilus as Kha'Zix, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kha'Zix vs Nautilus counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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