Nautilus vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Nautilus
based on 5,362 Nautilus vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Nautilus vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Nautilus against Xin Zhao counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nautilus typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nautilus and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Nautilus does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Nautilus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nautilus into Xin Zhao.
Moreover, Nautilus also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nautilus is a garbage counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nautilus against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to counter Xin Zhao 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 tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Xin Zhao build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.8% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Xin Zhao as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nautilus vs Xin Zhao clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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