Soraka vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Soraka
based on 3,528 Soraka vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Nautilus
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital Soraka versus Nautilus matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus..
Soraka usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Soraka or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Soraka does have a lower win rate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Nautilus.
Moreover, Soraka also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka 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 teamfights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Soraka against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Soraka versus Nautilus build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Nautilus as Soraka, Soraka players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Soraka vs Nautilus counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Soraka are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.