What is the best build for Nautilus?

We do not publish a best build for Nautilus, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Nautilus support build on patch 16.14 is Bandlepipes, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari, in 189 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Nautilus?

The most recorded Nautilus support rune page on patch 16.14 takes Aftershock out of Resolve, with Shield Bash, Second Wind and Unflinching beside it and Hextech Flashtraption and Cosmic Insight out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 51.0% of 3,131 games, range 49.2% to 52.7%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Nautilus build, patch 16.14

Q: What skill order should I use on Nautilus?

Recorded Nautilus support players max Q, then W, then E. 1,104 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 91% of 1,007 Q-first games and 89% of 63 W-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

4,356 games of Nautilus recorded on patch 16.14, across support, top, jungle, mid and bot.

Win rate

50.3% of support games this patch

Pick rate

5.5% of support games

Games

4,271 support, patch 16.14

Rank in role

5 of 90 support champions

Win impact against the average support pick on patch 16.14: +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.0 to 1.5) 4,271 games Pooled

What most Nautilus support players build, patch 16.14

Build Bandlepipes, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari, and run Aftershock

The rune page they run

Resolve

Aftershock

Inspiration

Shards

3,131 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 1,104 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Max Q, then W, then E. The level by level count.

189 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 61.4% (range 54.3-68.0) · 189 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Nautilus support is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 4,271 games, of which 2,149 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: support and top, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.2 per 100 vs the support average · 4,271 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (4,020 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-2.0, range -10.8 to +6.8)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Nautilus players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Nautilus, support

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 7 of them cleared 30 games.

Bandlepipes, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
61.4% 189 games
Protoplasm Harness, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
60.9% 128 games
Thornmail, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
67.8% 87 games
Kaenic Rookern, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
48.9% 47 games
Bandlepipes, Thornmail and Locket of the Iron Solari
60.0% 40 games
Bandlepipes, Protoplasm Harness and Locket of the Iron Solari
68.8% 32 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Nautilus, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 49 games of Nautilus top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Nautilus players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Nautilus, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Aftershock Resolve with Inspiration

3,131 games

Resolve

Aftershock

Inspiration

Shards

3,131 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Aftershock Resolve with Precision

570 games

Glacial Augment Inspiration with Resolve

277 games

Aftershock Resolve with Domination

184 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Aftershock: 50.4% 3,910 games
Glacial Augment: 49.0% 294 games

10 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Nautilus, top

7 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 19 games so far, this needs 30. 19 games

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Sorcery

Shards

19 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Stormraider's Surge Sorcery with Domination

not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30. 16 games

Aftershock Resolve with Inspiration

not enough games yet. 4 games so far, this needs 30. 4 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Grasp of the Undying: not enough games yet. 24 games so far, this needs 30. 24 games
Stormraider's Surge: not enough games yet. 17 games so far, this needs 30. 17 games
Aftershock: not enough games yet. 7 games so far, this needs 30. 7 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then W, then E

1,104 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 91% of 1,007 Q-first games and 89% of 63 W-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

too close

Nautilus support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 1,104 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Maxing Q and maxing W are too close to separate. -2.1 wins per 100 games (range -10.4 to 6.3) 973 games Measured 917 games maxed Q first, 56 games maxed W first.

No measured difference between maxing Q and W first, 973 games.

Nautilus, top

Not enough top level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 12 games so far, this needs 30.

Nautilus top has 49 games recorded, but only 12 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Nautilus support build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Locket of the Iron Solari: 14:41 1,116 games
Bandlepipes: 22:46 305 games
Knight's Vow: 23:21 422 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Nautilus?

The opponents Nautilus support loses to most and the teammates Nautilus gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

88 more opponents sit under 50 games against Nautilus and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Nautilus opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Nautilus teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Nautilus rank?

Every role we recorded Nautilus in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Nautilus by role

support B +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.0 to 1.5) 4,271 games Pooled: 60 4,271 games
top C -0.1 wins per 100 games (range -2.2 to 2.1) 49 games Pooled: 45 49 games
jungle not enough games yet. 24 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 24 games
mid not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 10 games
bot not enough games yet. 2 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 2 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Nautilus

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.