Nautilus vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Nautilus
based on 2,604 Nautilus vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Azir
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.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Nautilus vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Nautilus vs. Azir matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Azir
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Azir?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Nautilus makes a poor counter to Azir.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate than Azir, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Azir.
Additionally, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a trash counter to Azir. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus typically picks up a lot less CS as Azir. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nautilus versus Azir build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Azir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Azir as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nautilus vs Azir matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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