Nocturne vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Nocturne
based on 8,556 Nocturne vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Nautilus
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Win Against Nautilus
If Nautilus uses Riptide right next to you, hold in place until the ripple effect finishes before running. Running early will run straight into the secondary explosions, causing you to take additional damage and slow.
While Nautilus is shielded, he is capable of dealing large amounts of area of effect damage with his basic attacks - consider taking down the shield if you have time.
Nocturne vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Nocturne vs. Nautilus matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Nautilus, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nocturne into Nautilus.
Moreover, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Nautilus matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nocturne is an above average counter for Nautilus. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often racks up a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nocturne versus Nautilus build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Nautilus as Nocturne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nocturne vs Nautilus LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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