Maokai vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Maokai
based on 6,639 Maokai vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Nautilus
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack 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.
Maokai vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Maokai versus Nautilus counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus..
Maokai often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Maokai or Nautilus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 54.4% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a great counter to Nautilus.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Nautilus.
Additionally, Maokai also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Nautilus matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Maokai versus Nautilus build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 54.4% battling Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Nautilus as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Maokai vs Nautilus battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.4% win rate overall.
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