Lucian vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Lucian
based on 9,883 Lucian vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Nautilus
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Lucian in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Lucian against Nautilus counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Lucian normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Lucian or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Lucian makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Lucian does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when facing one another, Lucian also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lucian into Nautilus.
Moreover, Lucian has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Nautilus matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lucian against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lucian to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian most often gets much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Lucian versus Nautilus build include Rapid Firecannon, Stormrazor, and Bloodsong. When Lucian bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Nautilus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Nautilus as Lucian, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lucian vs Nautilus counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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