Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Trundle against Nautilus counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Trundle often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Trundle makes a great counter to Nautilus.
While Trundle does have a much higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when facing one another, Trundle also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Nautilus.
Moreover, Trundle also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Nautilus matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Trundle is a great counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Trundle against Nautilus.
To learn all of the intricacies of Trundle to counter Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle on average gets much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't get much CS often 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Trundle versus Nautilus build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 54.2% battling Nautilus with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Nautilus as Trundle, Trundle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Trundle vs Nautilus battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.2% win rate overall.
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