Veigar vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Veigar
based on 5,756 Veigar vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Nautilus
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Veigar versus Nautilus matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nautilus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Veigar or Nautilus?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when playing against Nautilus, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a good counter for Nautilus.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Veigar into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Nautilus matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is an above average counter for Nautilus. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often gets much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Veigar versus Nautilus build include Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Nautilus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Nautilus as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Veigar vs Nautilus LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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