Just how big is Nautilus?

Ironclad Dragon·7/24/2015, 5:17:23 AM·2 votes·10,225 views

http://wallpapers.wallhaven.cc/wallpapers/full/wallhaven-6928.png Yes, I watched A New Dawn too. No need to tell me "that big" just from that.

Okay, before A New Dawn came out, I didn't give much thought to Nautilus' size. I simply thought he was big; bigger than most of the cast, but not among the top contenders. Naturally, I was surprised to see him so big. But I took it into stride when I watched the video my first time through. I thought, "Maybe Riot made him bigger because it's more visually impressive." But a lot of people are hooked (fully intended) on his new size. In hindsight, I should've realized he would have to be huge to wield a ship's anchor (those things aren't tiny), but I still have a hard time buying his A New Dawn iteration being his actual size.

I mean, Nautilus merged with his diving suit, right? Primitive diving suits were bulky, but they certainly **weren't **the size of a house. How could such a huge hunk of metal be transported and stored in a ship? A ship can have deep holds, but those are mostly for a lot of small things. I can't think of a pre-modern vessel having a large enough opening for a diving suit that big. How would you even wear the thing? The sheer size of it would make it a medieval mech suit more than an armor.

The only reason I can see Nautilus being that big in the present, while the diving suit being convenient for transport, is that the black goo somehow made the suit bigger... to which I ask, "What?" Magic can do a lot of things with sufficient justification; why does this black goo make a man-sized suit into a titan? I can only buy things to a point.

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The Only Doctor7/24/2015, 5:43:14 AM2 votes

Vladimir and his Blood magic? Sure

Sibling Angelic beings fighting an endless War? Of course

A sentient and Fully armoured bear who controls an element? Naturally

A being who was trapped in the deepest depths of an ocean amongst an unknown black goo substance? possibly

WAIT, HE'S THE SIZE OF A TITAN!?! THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR!!!

Shénzhì7/24/2015, 8:42:34 AM1 votes

I'm also on that same fence against Nautilus...

Probably would have sounded better if he was a crew member of Leviathan (Swain's Noxian warship), which Gangplank may have sunk, and had to slip into this symbiotic 'dread suit' to survive from drowning and fought back as an Urgot- or Sion-like monster. Sion is Titan-like, Urgot can be Titan-like and so may Nautilus. Black goo just so cryptic.

Or maybe it is extra-planar entity like Fiddlesticks performing the dutiful role as Leviathan's furnace - a never-ending source of energy, which may describe the chaos of this forbidden magic. Noxian's practices of necromancy; animating and reanimating (like Sion and Urgot but conjured from forbidden magics). He looks like he could be a magic furnace of an ironclad warship.

Solideus7/24/2015, 9:17:24 AM1 votes

His body might not be just his diving suit though; it may be made up of all sorts of ship-parts from the ocean floor where he drowned.

The Anagram King7/24/2015, 10:03:51 AM1 votes

If Lulu can turn giants into small rabbits, then I think it's safe to say that goo can turn things big and possessed. :P

I mean, we can directly apply this logic to a lulu interaction with Nautilus. Naut can be turned small and woodland critter. I'm sure some explanation can be divined for Naut (and his suit) to change size (or be replicated).

RogueWill7/24/2015, 10:18:24 AM1 votes

He drank one of this item 2138

TheDuelist9997/24/2015, 3:50:01 PM1 votes

In new dawn Naut looks like 15 feet tall. I think he's prlly like 10. Think Gregor Clegane Stuffed into a diving suit with gigantic soles to the suit and a helmet that adds a large chunk to his height.

Michellangell12/16/2018, 4:18:08 PM1 votes

Think about Venom, i can only think that the thing was the goo and used him as a vesel. Thats my opinion