How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Nautilus · 52.13% win rate over 610 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Naut has no early burst and you have no kill on a tank — it's an even CS race until your nest comes up, just stay off his single Q hook line. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still even: his passive auto-root hurts if he reaches you, but he can't commit without the wave, so trade beam chip for his pushes. |
| Level 3 | Heimerdinger | Your second turret plus stacked slowing beams walls off the wave — he eats beam fire on every last-hit while you take none. |
| Levels 4-5 | Heimerdinger | Three banked charges plus the CH-3X center-stun make any hook-in suicidal: he can't all-in through the grenade and full nest DPS. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | His R knockup into a Q hook is a full CC lock on a dashless yordle, so 6 flips the lane the moment his jungler arrives. |
| First item | Heimerdinger | Your super-turret and grenade still own the siege and zone him off CS — you keep the architecture war against a tank. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Tank HP and resists let him shrug off your beams, so you out-siege but never out-kill him — it lands back at even. |
Nautilus can't kill you early — he's a tank with no burst and only one gap-closer — but you can't kill him either, so the first three levels are a CS race you slightly win once turrets come online. The one thing that ends you is his Q: a landed hook drags you out of the nest and onto his passive auto-root, so never sit in the hook line to last-hit — hug your turrets and let the beams chip him. By level 3 a second H-28G turret plus the stacked slows means he has to wade through beam fire just to farm, which is exactly the tax you want.
The full Heimerdinger vs Nautilus 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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