Orianna vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Orianna
based on 2,223 Orianna vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Nautilus
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Orianna vs. Nautilus matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Orianna typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Orianna or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when taking on Nautilus, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Orianna makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Orianna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Nautilusas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Focus your strategy on maximizing 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 Orianna against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna typically accumulates much more CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Orianna versus Nautilus build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Nautilus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Nautilus as Orianna, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Orianna vs Nautilus fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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