Nautilus vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Nautilus
based on 7,066 Nautilus vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Nautilus vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Nautilus versus Graves counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Graves
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Graves?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Nautilus does have a lower winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nautilus into Graves.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nautilus is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Graves during both the early game 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 presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually accumulates less CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nautilus versus Graves build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Graves as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nautilus vs Graves battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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