Viktor vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Viktor
based on 2,294 Viktor vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Nautilus
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Viktor in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Viktor versus Nautilus counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Viktor often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Viktor or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nautilus, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes an ok counter to Nautilus.
While Viktor does have a higher win rate than Nautilus, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Viktor into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Nautilus matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Viktor is a decent counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Viktor against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually accumulates much more CS as Nautilus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Viktor versus Nautilus build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Nautilus than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nautilus as Viktor, Viktor players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Viktor vs Nautilus counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nautilus as Viktor are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.