Let´s talk about Nautilus

Narcos Cosinus·1/19/2015, 9:39:04 AM·2 votes·1,017 views

Hi, I want to talk about Nautilus. This patch he got buffed, but in my humble opinion this buff is not that good as it looks.

His early game shield is a bit worse(y u du dis). Ok, his late game is much better now, but his early sucks a lot and without his shield, he has no damage at all.
Compared to other tank junglers(Sejuani, Zac). He has no %dmg to help him with clear or dealing with tanks in mid-late game.
Since he has no %dmg or something like that, Nautilus deals damage only to soft characters. That´s ok. but he´s slow and if he misses his anchor he´s fucked. Compared to Sej ult which is AoE and stunning for 1,75sec(?) it sucks. Ok, you cant miss it, but you can´t get to the carry if you dont have assassin in team.

6 Comments

DefenderOfFaith1/19/2015, 12:06:50 PM2 votes

I think they wanted to create another volibear but it didn't work. Some shit about accentuating champion strengths and weaknesses, so aside from being slow as hell with an attack speed that is the worst in the game, they forgot to get around to the strengths. Here's a shield or some shit. GL Naut!

aaronconlin1/19/2015, 3:41:53 PM2 votes

I don't think he's necessarily in a bad spot after his nerf/buff, but he could use some more love. I don't mind his attack speed being low, because you actually lose damage when his attack speed passes 1.0 due to his DoT shield damage. However, the amount of damage his auto attacks do is extremely low, and he scales with AP so it's not even worth it to build AD to compensate for this (plus building gauntlet or mallet is kind of counter productive on Naut)

RTX Warnoise1/19/2015, 4:13:04 PM2 votes

As a Nautilus main, i feel that Nautilus is very good against player who don't know him. But anyone with experience knows that Nautilus without shield is just trash so he comes over, break the shield with one skill then proceeds to get his free kill.

With the new change now you have to focus on HP items in order to get the most of your W so at least it won't pop in one basic skill.

I think that they should increase base damage of W because it is the main damage of Nautilus and it is easily counterable.

DoFr1/19/2015, 5:16:16 PM1 votes

they could just give nautilus the extended period, and give his shield duration to half of the ability's duration (for example lets say the ability is on 10 seconds cooldown, the shield goes after 5 seconds) BUT he gets his full DoT duration (the entire 10 seconds) and he loses the AoE when he loses the Shield.

with the current Reduction to his base i think that's a proper way to approach it, i mean wolfs and raptors (oh god the raptors..) literally take your shield in 2-3 hits, and judging from your slow Attack speed, you didn't do much (Mechanics comes into play, you can get a Free full 2 Ticks even without the shield, if you understood his mechanics)

that's Legitimately all that Nautilus Needs

Giovarco1/19/2015, 5:45:53 PM1 votes

I often play Nautilus. He's ok IMO, but his MS is so low. You need item 3117 early or MS runes (or both).

EDIT: He need to be bigger!!