I think Nautilus needs tweaks, I honestly have maintained that he is OP for awhile now, maybe not horribly, but he feels way too strong in comparison to other champions right now.

Yeah, he sees a LOT of tourney plays.

More like, Under the sonar

I love him, best tank IMO, He is my go to pick for tanking.

There's bigger things to worry about, like how underpowered sejuani is. Also I believe nautilus is fine, he moves incredibly slow and his jungle gets countered to tears. Without coordination, it's hard to transition with him from wolves to blue, etc.

Try going Mid if your team lets you, Top lane works as well.

Build CDR/AP (boots 3pot > Philo > HoG > Dcap > Rylais) is what I usually do. Take the blue buff when your jungler doesn't need it. At level 5 you can W+E the wave and go take wraiths and whatever else you want. Instakill at 6 pretty much. Oh, and junglers love ganking Naut lanes.

Come back to me when you are Q/W/E your opponent for half HP. And usually instakill at 6 if you wither your oponnent down.

He has 0.75 ratio on Q, 0.4 on W (which also scales with HP, so even going RoA can be viable), Max of 1.0 scaling on his E, and his Ult has a combined 1.2 AP scaling on top of insane base dmg (Think it 250/350/450 on the knock up part, and 125/175/225 on the pass through part)

If you are having trouble surviving as naut you are building something wrong.


If you use it at max range it will usually bring you in range to ult someone buy surprise. It has also helped me survive so many times you have no idea. Try and use it to dodge skill shots instead.

The shield is an excellent design. He is a tank, and as a tank you want to make people focus you. You pop the shield and suddenly do alot of damage. Now people want to focus you instead of your teammates. And if they don't? You tear them to shreds. That's called good design.

Also, build a frozen heart.


I honestly don't know what you mean by it's hit and miss nature. There's no luck or anything involved.

As for the ult, the secondary effect is two parts. One part is you have to ave good skill in positioning to get the maximum use out of it, which is skill based. The second part is you should generally ult the AD carries who are usually in the back and flash when the fight starts so it makes it travel a long way and hit the most people naturally. It's design by nature encourages you to hit the most targets.


He is very different from blitz, you should play both of them back to back and try and make that comparison again.



If you want to see a good nautlius game i've uploaded one to LoLreplay. Search my name and champ naut and the game title is Naut and tf carry 4v5.

sejuani just has a slow start. i dont think she is up.

Nautilus is really, really strong in the jungle imo, but getting counterjungled on his initial clear puts him really far behind and then after he just needs get his double GP/5s and his a beast just because that shieald makes him quite tanky and damaging plus pretty quick clears after level 3 shield. His innate CC is what really makes him that strong imo

Actually, it's fairly simple to nerf Nautilus' CCs.

To start, and itt's really easy to miss this point, almost all of them all scale with level - His passive is 0.5 to 1 and his ult is 1 to 2 - His slow % scales with rank. His Q is his only form of CC that doesn't scale noticeably with level.

It's an easy shift to move them up and down on a per rank basis.

Nautilus' CC scales with level in order for him to seem crazy late-game but still have a balanceable mid and early game. It's also one of the reasons why he's resilient and can recover fairly easily - because his CC power is almost directly tied to game length.

AP mid Nautilus is SO Strong!