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.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Nautilus vs. Lee Sin matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between this pair of champs. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nautilus normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Nautilus makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Nautilus does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nautilus into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Nautilus has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Lee Sin matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nautilus is an above average counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Lee Sin.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nautilus versus Lee Sin build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Lee Sin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when countering Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Nautilus, Nautilus players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nautilus vs Lee Sin face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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