While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stats shown here feature some significant Nautilus vs. Anivia matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Anivia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Anivia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when trying to fight Anivia, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Nautilus does have a lower winrate than Anivia, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Anivia.
Additionally, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a terribly counter to Anivia. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Anivia.
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to counter Anivia during both the laning 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 stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus often racks up a lot less CS compared to Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nautilus versus Anivia build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Anivia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Anivia with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Anivia as Nautilus, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nautilus vs Anivia battles, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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