How to win lane as Nautilus against Kled · 71.43% win rate over 7 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even — I have no W/E all-in yet, but my passive root keeps auto-trades favorable against his mounted Q poke. |
| Level 2 | Kled | At 2 my W shield-splash or E slow comes online and I start winning short trades his Q-grab poke can't sustain. |
| Level 3 | Kled | With Q + W + E up I pull him into passive root and E-slow so he can't reposition to remount — one chain wins the trade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Kled | My W shield and E scale up and zone him off farm; he can't dismount-escape my Q pull, so I keep controlling the wave. |
| Level 6 | Kled | Depth Charge is undodgeable lockdown that catches him mid-Q-grab or mid-charge and chains into a kill — my hardest spike. |
| First item | Kled | My tanky engage item makes Q gank setups and W trades lethal while his base damage still hasn't out-scaled mine. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Kled out-scales hard — his courage stacking and remount sustain shred my tank stats while my low base damage flatlines. |
Level 1 is roughly even — I have no all-in without W/E, and Kled's mounted Q poke is real, so I just last-hit and trade autos where my passive root gives me the edge. The lane flips at 2-3: once my Q pull, W shield-splash and E slow are online I own every short trade. Bait his mounted Q, then Q-pull him into my passive root and E-slow him — he can't reposition to remount Skaarl mid-chain, and my shield eats his poke.
The full Nautilus vs Kled 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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