Nautilus vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Nautilus
based on 2,053 Nautilus vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Nautilus vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Nautilus against Kassadin counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when taking on Kassadin, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Nautilus does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Kassadin.
Additionally, Nautilus also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Kassadin matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Kassadin.
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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 Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus often racks up a lot less CS as Kassadin. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nautilus versus Kassadin build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Kassadin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Kassadin as Nautilus, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nautilus vs Kassadin clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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