Nautilus vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Nautilus
based on 5,660 Nautilus vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Nautilus vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Nautilus against Garen counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Garen
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a good counter for Garen.
While Nautilus does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nautilus into Garen.
Moreover, Nautilus has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Garen matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Garen.
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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 Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually gets a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Garen build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 51.2% battling Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Garen as Nautilus, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nautilus vs Garen fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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