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Nautilus champion portrait

Nautilus Build

Support Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 113,400 gamesUpdated

49.9%win rate5.1%pick14.7%ban

Who counters Nautilus

Every Support matchup for Nautilus, ranked →

How to build Nautilus

Plated Steelcaps→Locket of the Iron Solari→Knight's Vow→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Locket of the Iron Solari → Knight's Vow → Thornmail

57.7% win rate 14% of games 5,645 games
RunesResolveAftershockShield BashBone PlatingUnflinchingInspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight41% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite69%
Skills
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Dredge Line
14578
Titan's Wrath
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Riptide
314151718
Depth Charge
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Nautilus build →

Best ADCs for Nautilus

Who Nautilus has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Nautilus

Who Nautilus has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

49.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.7% over 264,428 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.9% over 113,400 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.5%at Emerald+
5.1%pick rate
14.7%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.7%under 22 min
51.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Nautilus champion portraitS Nautilus+Ashe champion portraitB AshevsXerath champion portraitS Xerath+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
6 / 14 / 4

Build

BloodsongPlated Steelcaps|Locket of the Iron Solari→Thornmail→Force of Nature

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWW
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Nautilus champion portraitS Nautilus+Aurelion Sol champion portraitB Aurelion SolvsSkarner champion portraitS Skarner+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
4 / 14 / 26

Build

Celestial OppositionMercury's Treads|Locket of the Iron Solari→Knight's Vow→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashHeal|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Nautilus champion portraitS Nautilus+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'SavsThresh champion portraitS Thresh+Aphelios champion portraitB Aphelios
2 / 2 / 18

Build

Celestial OppositionPlated Steelcaps|Locket of the Iron Solari→Thornmail

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.8% win rate · 41% of games · 44,854 games
ResolveAftershockShield BashBone PlatingUnflinching
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.1% win rate · 23% of games · 24,915 games
ResolveAftershockShield BashConditioningRevitalize
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite69%49.8%80,355 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash18%49.1%21,461 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps60%Mercury's Treads28%Boots of Swiftness7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.4% win rate
Support item
Celestial Opposition58%Solstice Sleigh37%Bloodsong4%
Celestial Opposition most often · 49.6% win rate

Nautilus build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari1st
  2. Knight's Vow2nd
  3. Thornmail3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path58.7% win rate4,046 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Nautilus →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 113,869 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
59% · 50.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 50.9% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
7% · 55.2% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 32.4% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
1% · 51.5% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 36.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari+Plated Steelcaps8% of games · 37.3% win rate · 9,480 games
  2. Locket of the Iron Solari›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps8% of games · 47.5% win rate · 8,582 games
  3. Locket of the Iron Solari›Knight's Vow+Plated Steelcaps7% of games · 53.1% win rate · 7,906 games
  4. Locket of the Iron Solari+Mercury's Treads4% of games · 37.2% win rate · 3,995 games
  5. Locket of the Iron Solari›Knight's Vow+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 52.3% win rate · 3,690 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Nautilus against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Nautilus's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Nautilus's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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