Zoe vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Zoe
based on 1,958 Zoe vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Nautilus
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Zoe in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Zoe vs. Nautilus matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zoe often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Zoe or Nautilus?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Nautilus, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Nautilus.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Nautilus.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nautilus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter to Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically picks up much more CS compared to Nautilus. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zoe versus Nautilus build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Nautilus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 46.8% battling Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Nautilus as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zoe vs Nautilus fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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