Shaco vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Shaco
based on 5,535 Shaco vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Nautilus
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Shaco versus Nautilus counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Shaco or Nautilus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when playing against Nautilus, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Shaco does have a higher win rate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Nautilusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Nautilus matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require 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 have in your Shaco versus Nautilus build consist of Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Nautilus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nautilus as Shaco, Shaco players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Shaco vs Nautilus matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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