How to win lane as Nautilus against Rakan · 50.06% win rate over 4,477 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Nautilus | Nautilus is tankier and his level-1 CC chain beats Rakan's fragile early kit. |
| Level 2 | Nautilus | Your level-2 Q engage lands before Grand Entrance is online, so you spike first. |
| Level 3 | Nautilus | Q hook plus passive root out-locks his short knockup through level 3. |
| Levels 4-5 | Nautilus | Titan's Wrath shields let you win 4-5 all-ins on the squishier Rakan. |
| Level 6 | Rakan | Rakan's The Quickness at 6 gives him engage-plus-escape your R can't cleanly punish. |
| First item | Nautilus | First-item tankiness lets you body-block Grand Entrance and re-peel, tilting it back to you. |
| Two+ items | Rakan | Late, his AoE charm and dash resets make him the better teamfight engage over your reactive R. |
Nautilus controls levels 1-4: your Q hook and passive root lock Rakan down longer than his knockup, and he's fragile early so any Titan's Wrath-shielded all-in favours you. Force trades before his E Battle Dance charges are up and body-block Grand Entrance to deny his engage.
The full Nautilus vs Rakan report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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