Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Tristana vs. Nautilus counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Tristana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nautilus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when playing against Nautilus, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Nautilus.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Nautilus.
To truly master Tristana in order 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often gets much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Tristana versus Nautilus build consist of Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Nautilus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Nautilus as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Tristana vs Nautilus clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Tristana are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.