Nautilus vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Nautilus
based on 2,723 Nautilus vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Nautilus vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Nautilus in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Nautilus against Gragas matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Gragas
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Nautilus does have a higher win rate compared to Gragas, when on opposite teams, Nautilus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nautilus into Gragas.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Gragas matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter for Gragas. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus most often picks up a lot less CS as Gragas. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Gragas build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Gragas than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Gragas as Nautilus, you should use 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 sets players used for Nautilus vs Gragas counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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