Kindred vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Kindred
based on 3,201 Kindred vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Nautilus
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Kindred against Nautilus matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kindred usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Kindred or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when playing against Nautilus, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less complex character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kindred into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Kindred also has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kindred is a trash counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kindred to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kindred versus Nautilus build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs. Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Nautilus with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nautilus as Kindred, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kindred vs Nautilus counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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