Sion vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Sion
based on 4,449 Sion vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Nautilus
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
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.
Sion vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Sion in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Sion versus Nautilus matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus..
Sion usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Sion or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sion usually wins when taking on Nautilus, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Sion does have a higher winrate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Sion also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sion into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Sion has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Nautilus matchups, Sion is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sion is a decent counter to Nautilus. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sion against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sion to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion often accumulates much more CS as Nautilus. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sion versus Nautilus build include Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sion included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Nautilus as Sion, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Sion vs Nautilus battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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