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.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Nautilus vs. Rell matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rell..
Nautilus often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rell. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when facing off against Rell, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes a bad counter for Rell.
While Nautilus does have a much lower win rate compared to Rell, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nautilus into Rell.
Additionally, Nautilus has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a bad counter to Rell. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Rell.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Rell during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rell. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale 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 situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nautilus versus Rell build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Rell than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 45.3% when playing against Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rell as Nautilus, Nautilus players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nautilus vs Rell matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rell as Nautilus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.