Talk:Nautilus/@comment-5077844-20140702114428/@comment-5077844-20140705171944

Well i sorta mained Nautilus for a while (but now that Sejuani is back with a vengeance i don't need to do that anymore), and I think maybe your problem is that you don't utilize his strengths enough.

First of all, he's an early game Bronze carry and the stories are true. Ever played pre-rework Sejuani and got off a lvl 4 gank? Like that, but stronger. His cleartime isn't as bad as people make it to be if you run AS marks and movespeed quints. It hink the biggest mistake people make is to lvl his Q at lvl 3. I personally rather get W to lvl2 so i can stay in the jungle longer. Q only makes sense if you know you are immediately going to gank after red. And the ganks are so easy to pull off. Jsut come from the side or behind and smash him with your hammer, slow him, wait for him to use summoners and then throw your anchor which is impossible to dodge without a dash due to the high projectile speed. And with ult it's even easier. You don't even need to stack health so much. I rather go for getting as much cdr as possible early (Frozen heart as second or third item) and either mobi boots or mercury's for even more efficcient ganks.

Nautilus' sole purpose is to get your laners fed early and protect them midgame by strolling through the jungle with them to catch any enemy.

You jsut ahve to finish the game fast because you fall off hard lategame (yyour W deals great damage but the shield will be popped so early that you won't be able to utilize it) because unless the enemy team is stupid and splits up all the time you won't be doing much else then trying to stunlock one enemy which the support can simply counterbuild with Mikael's. Effectively you just lose damage and gain a semi-useful fulltank.

To sum up: In Bronze and Silver, where wards are overrated map awareness is non-existent and actual counterjungling (I stole his big wraith, hurdurhur #crippled4lyfe) is as rare as Poppy in competitive (non-existent that is) Nautilus shines by enabling kills left and right.

This video kinda shows exactly what I've been explaining before (minus a few things). It perfectly shows Naut's incredible strenghts and the point where he starts to fail to do his job, (spoiler: they lose)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkSiA8T-30