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.
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
The stats shown here highlight several critical Nautilus against Cassiopeia matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Cassiopeia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a bad counter to Cassiopeia.
While Nautilus does have a lower winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nautilus into Cassiopeia.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter 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 Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nautilus is a terribly counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Cassiopeia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually picks up a lot less CS as Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nautilus versus Cassiopeia build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Cassiopeia than with many other common builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 46.1% when countering Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Cassiopeia as Nautilus, Nautilus players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Nautilus vs Cassiopeia counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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