Skarner vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Skarner
based on 549 Skarner vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Nautilus
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Skarner against Nautilus matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Skarner usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Skarner or Nautilus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Skarner does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Skarner into Nautilus.
Additionally, Skarner has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often gets a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Skarner versus Nautilus build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nautilus as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Skarner vs Nautilus battles, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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