Zoe vs Nautilus Counter Pick

With 539 games logged on patch 16.13.1, this is a well-sampled support pairing, so the 42.7% result carries weight rather than reading as noise. Nautilus is the favourite, and the mechanism is easy to name: every ability in his kit produces hard crowd control, and Zoe has 21 base armor to absorb the follow-up from 61 base attack damage.

Dredge Line is the trigger. A landed anchor pulls both champions together, after which Staggering Blow roots on his first attack, Riptide slows through three separate explosions, and Depth Charge removes any chance of walking out. Zoe’s escape tool is Portal Jump, a one-second blink that returns her to the starting position — useful for dodging a single projectile, useless for leaving a chain that has already begun.

The stat sheet reinforces the pattern. Nautilus opens with 646 health and 39 armor against 630 and 21, and his 175 attack range keeps her from contesting anything at close quarters. He does concede 325 move speed to her 340 and finishes at 2,346 health against her 2,432, so the counterplay is positional rather than statistical: hold Sleepy Trouble Bubble as an anti-engage tool instead of spending it on poke, and stay away from walls that let a hook double as a gap closer. His cooldown profile is on the Nautilus page.