Talk:Nautilus/@comment-67.248.86.64-20130219065154/@comment-5490997-20130222100240

Well let's do some math, I love getting Spirit of the Elder Lizard on Nautilus when I'm doing well, so I will compare it with that.

Liandry's deals 2% of current HP in damage and double that when movement is impaired. Seeing how Nautilus will have a hard time not impairing movement I will assume it deals 4% damage of current HP.

Spirit of the Elder Lizard deals 66 true damage over time at level 18. That means the only defense against it is build more HP, armor and magic resist won't help.

At 1650 HP Liandry's deals 66 damage (4% of 1650 = 66). The issue however is that Liandry's deals magic damage, which will get hindered by magic resist and as someone's HP goes down it'll deal less damage. Someone with 100 magic resist needs 3300 HP to feel that 66 damage and anything less than that will mean Elder Lizard will deal more damage.

Now seeing how %HP damage is designed for taking down HP tanks I can quite safely say Elder Lizard is superior to Liandry's. The fact you can't reduce the damage Elder Lizard deals is a huge advantage and it won't scale down as the HP of your opponent drops.

Of course I'm not taking into account here the AD/CDR/regen Elder Lizard gives and the AP/mpen/HP Liandry's gives. But I can say that Elder Lizard will help you speed up your jungle immensely.

tl;dr: If you want a DoT based damage item on Nautilus get Elder Lizard.