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Nautilus Build Guide by

Nautilus

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Runes:

Resolve

Aftershock

Shield Bash

Bone Plating

Unflinching

Inspiration

Biscuit Delivery

Cosmic Insight

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Spawn

First Purchases

Boots Options

Core Items

Situational Items

Full Build Example

Ability Order Recommended

Nautilus Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Morgana

Extreme

Morgana is a hard counter to Nautilus due to her Black Shield. She can negate your all in potential by protecting herself or her ADC from your Dredge Line pull, or preventing the root from your Staggering Blow.

Draven

Ideal

Draven is a perfect synergy for Nautilus, due to his high base damage and axes. He has CC on his E which can set up, or follow up, from your Dredge Line. Nautlius, being weak outside of his CD rotations, the high damage Draven can offer in the small burst window is nearly always a guaranteed kill.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Draven

Ideal

Champion Build Guide

Introduction

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I love competitive games and have yet to find anything for me that compares to League.
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Why Nautilus?

Nautlius is a strong, early-game support that transitions well into the late game, with his strong zoning and CC abilities. There are rarely any matchups that he cannot be played into, and the pressure he exerts is second to none. He is currently a tier 1 support, with the 2nd highest win rate of all supports.

If you enjoy playing, or want to learn more about , you can read and discuss more over at
/r/NautilusMains.

Summoner Spells

and are the staple go to for nearly all support champions, especially with the all-in presence that
provides.

The reasoning behind is that it gives you a lot of extra pressure in lane, and furthermore adds a 40% healing reduction. As , you want to snowball your ADC as quickly and efficiently as possible, while zoning off the enemy ADC.

is used for the threat of an all-in engage, and as your primary escape summoner.

Runes

Resolve + Inspiration

With the massive amounts of CC built into , on your passive, and the displacement on your , you can proc extremely easily. After 2.5s, you explode, dealing damage in an aoe around you, which adds to your burst window. During this window, it increases your magic resist, and your armor - which adds extra tankiness to an already tanky champion - something that is necessary on your all-in.

is a staple part of rune set-up. There are multiple reasons, starting with the fact you gain bonus armor and magic resist every time you use , which adds extra value to using your shield when engaging on an opponent.
You gain bonus damage on your next attack up to 2s after the shield expires, increasing your burst, working well in conjunction with your .

is an engage champion, he wants to be snowballing his ADC by diving into the enemies, making the best choice for him. The longer you survive, the more cc and damage you can output and enables this.

With and his burst damage, you are using to engage on enemy champions, catching them off guard. adds tenacity and slow resistance for up to 10s after using a summoner spell, you can use this to get in and out with more safety than the other choices, you also gain tenacity and slow resistance when one or both of your summoners are on cooldown, enabling you get in and out quicker.

Even though may be as tanky as he is with the treeline, he is still a melee champion, and against poke match-ups, helps increase his sustain. With his large mana costs, they also restore 15% of your missing mana, and also increase your mana cap permanently by 40 per biscuit consumed, or sold.

reduces the cooldown of everything in your set-up, and adds an extra 5% CDR to your max CDR, meaning you can have higher up time on your engage tools, disengage tools, items you buy, and summoners.

Abilities

Staggering Blow

Staggering Blow (Passive)

RANGE: Melee
COST: 0 mana
COOLDOWN: 6 seconds

INNATE: Nautilus's basic attacks deal 8 − 110 (based on level) Attack damage bonus physical damage and Root icon root his target for 0.75 − 1.5 (based on level) seconds.

applies on-hit effects, and can critically strike. The root will be applied, even if the enhanced attack is dodged, parried, blocked or if is blinded. 's will block the root, but not the damage.

Dredge Line

Dredge Line (Q)

RADIUS: 175
COST: 80 mana
COOLDOWN: 12

ACTIVE: Nautilus hurls his anchor forward in a line, simultaneously dragging the enemy hit towards him while dashing towards them within 0.9 seconds, dealing magic damage and rooting them for 0.1 seconds.

If the anchor hits terrain, dashes to the very end of its path, it's cooldown is reduced by 50% and it refunds half of it's mana cost.

You can pull champions out of their dash abilites by using Dredge Line.
You can use Dredge Line as an escape tool or gap closer by using it on terrain.
Dredge Line will hit minions, and towers and subsequently pull you into them, so you want to be careful!

Titan's Wrath

Tian's Wrath (Q)

RANGE: 1100
COST: 60 mana
COOLDOWN: 14 / 13 / 12

ACTIVE: Nautilus shields himself for up to 6 seconds.

While the shield holds, his basic attacks deal bonus magic damage over 2 seconds to his target and all enemies around them.

Titan's Wrath resets Nautilus' basic attack timer.
Titan's Wrath is the reason we take Shield Bash, so use it just before an engage, up to 2s after the shield expires.

Riptide

Riptide (Q)

RADIUS: 600
COST: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 mana
COOLDOWN: 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5

ACTIVE: Nautilus creates 3 waves of explosions that radiate from him, each dealing magic damage to all enemies hit and slowing them by an amount that decays over 1.5 seconds.

Enemies hit by subsequent waves beyond the first are dealt half damage.

You can use Riptide to slow enemies, trying to escape from your all-in after you have exhausted your other cc abilites.

Depth Charge

Depth Charge (Q)

RANGE: 825
COST: 100 mana
COOLDOWN: 120 / 100 / 80

ACTIVE: Nautilus sends out a Depth Charge that chases the target enemy champion, dealing magic damage while knocking them up, and anyone in it's path, for 1 second and stunning them on arrival.

All enemies hit along the way are dealt less damage, knocked up for 1 second, and are also stunned.

You can use Depth Charge on the furthest away target in a team fight, to guarantee that the enemies between yourself and them will be cc'd.

Gameplay

Early Game

Level 1 you will want to be levelling your as it's your primary engage tool, and can get you early level 1 kills. You can set up an invade if your team is not afk in base - going through the midlane to the right brush, as you will not be seen by the enemy until it's too late.

You can also set up a brush cheese in lane, and engage straight away onto your opposing laners with , minimum you should be able to blow 1 or both of their , and at best you can get at least one kill.

When you're in laning phase, you want to be a dominant force, pushing and zoning the enemy laners out of cs'ing, with the threat of a engage, or a all in. You want to be looking all the time for potential hook opportunities, granting your ADC easy kills or setting up a gank from your ally jungler.

If you're laning vs a and/or a , you'll want to bait their and before you make an all in, they're on relatively long cooldowns at the lower levels (26s and 22s), so you can take advantage of this. Baiting can be achieved by any means, moving in an aggressive way, getting into their face to take advantage of your , or if your ADC has baited a spell such as 's .

Level 2 you want to be skilling up for the slow, so there's even less chance your opposing laners can escape your engage. Then it's onto , which is synergistic with , and the reason you take that rune. It also gives you more survivability on your all-in.
You want s around your bottom brushes to be aware of any impeding ganks coming, and to deny the enemies any vision of where your jungler or you, may be.

Proccing your , you'll want to be focusing the cannon minions as priority, then melee minions, and lastly ranged.

Once you get your first back, hopefully with at least one or two kills under your belt, you want to be getting your ward upgrade (you are still a support after all!), and looking to buy for the roaming potential. You can set up kills for your midlaner and get them ahead, along with your ADC.
If you can't roam, you want to be maximizing gold for your ADC, and this includes taking tower plates after kills. You can tower dive around level 3 with your , depending on an ADC such as , or , with her easy escape.

Mid - Late Game

Outside of laning phase, you're going to want to be setting up a lot of wards around objectives, such as and the drakes. If your team is ahead, and it is safe to do so, you can set up deep vision in the enemies jungle, allowing yourself and your team to get important picks, that allow you to take the previously mentioned objectives.

As tanky as is, you mostly want to be around your team, and helping out your ADC to (hopefully) continue his lead. You can still set up kills for him, and you're a strong threat to think about for an enemy wanting to set up a gank, as it's very easy for the tides to turn in your favor.

During teamfights, you'll either be wanting to make the engage on an important target, such as the enemies ADC, or a backline mage, or you will want to be peeling your ADC from targets such as or . Your kit is overloaded with cc, meaning you can 100-0 an enemy assassin in one burst window.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times.

Conclusion

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