Nautilus vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nautilus
based on 4,508 Nautilus vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Nautilus vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Nautilus against Bard matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Nautilus often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Bard
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Nautilus makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Nautilus does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Nautilus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Bard.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nautilus is a bad counter to Bard. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nautilus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nautilus versus Bard build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 45.7% when playing against Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Bard as Nautilus, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nautilus vs Bard counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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