Nautilus vs Taric Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Nautilus is a tank/support hybrid, Taric a support/tank hybrid, and they meet in the Support lane. 1,001 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Nautilus at a 46.4% win rate into Taric. A deficit of 3.6 points is what earns Taric its counter flag in this matchup.
Nautilus looks for Riptide (E); Taric answers with Starlight’s Touch (Q). Level six shifts things: Depth Charge on one side, Cosmic Radiance on the other.
With both sitting in melee range (175 against 150), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Nautilus and Taric overlap on mixed damage, so itemisation converges rather than splits. Nautilus opens on 646 health and 39 armour, Taric on 645 and 40. Nautilus scales to 2346 health by 18 while Taric reaches 2328. Base attack damage is 61 against 55, so Nautilus wins the raw auto-attack exchange. Nautilus walks at 325 and Taric at 340, so Taric dodges skillshots a fraction easier.
Nautilus is the more demanding of the two to pilot (6/10 versus 3/10), which quietly shapes the win rate. Nautilus players logged 1,001 of these games to produce the 46.4% figure. The page tracks Nautilus against Taric continuously rather than freezing on one patch.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Taric has the statistical edge. Nautilus wins 46.4% of the recorded games.
46.4% from Nautilus's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
1,001 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Nautilus build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Nautilus build page.