How to win lane as Nautilus against Ornn · 52.94% win rate over 17 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is a wash — Ornn's E pillar and W brittle trade with your auto-passive and you have no all-in without W or E yet. |
| Level 2 | Nautilus | At 2 you get W's shield and burning autos, and with no sustain on Ornn every short trade chunks him for free. |
| Level 3 | Nautilus | Q-pull into passive root into W-burn is a guaranteed combo Ornn can't dash out of — you win nearly every trade now. |
| Levels 4-5 | Nautilus | Your W shield and E slow zone an immobile Ornn off the wave while he has nothing to punish you back with. |
| Level 6 | Nautilus | Depth Charge is homing and undodgeable and Ornn has no escape — R into your CC chain locks him for a kill or a gank. |
| First item | Nautilus | Your first-item engage spike still beats him before his cheap self-forged items come online — force the all-in here. |
| Two+ items | Ornn | Ornn out-scales hard: discounted self-itemization plus his pillar wall and double-knockup R outclass your flattening damage late. |
Level 1 is genuinely even — Ornn's E pillar and W can trade and his brittle shatter respects your walk-up, so don't throw a naked Q before you have W. The moment you hit 2 and especially 3 with Q, W and E online you take over: hook him off the wave, eat the passive root proc, and pop W to burn magic damage onto him through every short trade. He has no sustain whatsoever, so every chunk sticks. Just respect his E pillar — if he lands it on you mid-engage he knocks you up and brittle-shatters your follow-up, so bait the pillar before you commit Q.
The full Nautilus vs Ornn 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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