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.
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable Nautilus against Mordekaiser matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Mordekaiser. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Mordekaiser. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when taking on Mordekaiser, with a 44.6% win rate. Therefore, Nautilus makes a poor counter for Mordekaiser.
While Nautilus does have a much lower winrate compared to Mordekaiser, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nautilus into Mordekaiser.
Furthermore, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nautilus is a garbage counter for Mordekaiser. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Mordekaiser.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Mordekaiser. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Mordekaiser build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Mordekaiser than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 44.6% when countering Mordekaiser with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Mordekaiser as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip 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 used for Nautilus vs Mordekaiser fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.6% winrate overall.
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