How to win lane as Lillia against Nautilus · 42.11% win rate over 19 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Nautilus | Dredge Line hook plus his passive auto-root lock you in place at level 1 — your move-speed kite, your only defense, does nothing while rooted. |
| Level 2 | Nautilus | He layers the hook with Titan's Wrath AOE and the passive root; you have no dash to escape and your one Q does nothing back. |
| Level 3 | Nautilus | By 3 his hook-to-root chain wins every trade — you can't stack Dream Dust safely because getting caught means his full combo. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Full Q rank and move-speed stacks let you chip the burn IF he misses Dredge Line, but one landed hook on your squishy body still flips it. |
| Level 6 | Lillia | Lilting Lullaby is your one real spike — sleep him before he hooks so his CC can't chain you, then wake him with center-W for burst. |
| First item | Even / skill | Liandry's/Riftmaker makes your W and Dream Dust hurt his tank stack, but he just hooks and out-trades through the chip — only even at best. |
| Two+ items | Nautilus | His Q hook into R knockup is point-and-click hard CC that ignores your kite — one catch deletes your dash-less, squishy body in a fight. |
Levels 1-3 belong to Nautilus and there's no sugar-coating it — his Dredge Line hook plus the passive root on his first auto is the exact hard CC that erases your whole identity, since your survival is built on Q move-speed stacks and your passive's chase speed, none of which matter when you're rooted in place. Stand at the very tip of your Q sweetspot to farm and treat every step into his hook range as a death. Do NOT try to stack Dream Dust on him early — getting the burn going isn't worth eating a hook that lets him auto-root you and Titan's Wrath you down.
The full Lillia 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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