Zac vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Zac
based on 3,570 Zac vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Nautilus
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Zac in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Zac against Nautilus counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus..
Zac usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Zac or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Nautilus, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a great counter for Nautilus.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Nautilusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Nautilus matchups, Zac 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 late stage team fights.
Zac is a great counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically accumulates more CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zac versus Nautilus build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Nautilus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 53.7% when countering Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Nautilus as Zac, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Zac vs Nautilus LoL games, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% win rate overall.
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