Hello everyone, I'm Bob the Toastr, and I'm here to start a new trend: Attack Speed Nautilus. This build works well for me and I would be interested to see if it works for any of you that may decide to try it out, so please leave feedback so I can know what I can do better in my guide or in the build. If you do decide to downvote, I would absolutely love it if you could tell me what you disliked. Just a warning, I will be making this guide very comprehensive and will be getting very detailed in it. So here goes my first build guide, and I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to read this.

Nautilus is a crowd control heavy champion mainly built as a tank and used to lock down the enemy carries. I choose to build him with attack speed rather than tanky because I feel it works well with his kit, and allows him to have a large presence in teamfights. Before you commit to attack speed Nautilus, you should make sure that your toplaner, support, or both are going to build tanky because your team needs at least one good tank. This build may not seem viable in ranked play, but I have played several ranked games with it and have done very well. Before you dismiss this as not viable, if you need convincing, please click this to see that the build actually works.

Pros

+ Titan's Wrath is a great jungling tool + Massive amount of crowd control + Great engage/chase/escape + *Good DPS and damage over time + *Good dueling potential + *They will underestimate you

4 out of 5 of Nautilus's abilities (including his passive) have crown control with them, which makes him great at chasing, escaping, or locking down carries. Staggering Blow, similar to Udyr's Blazing Stampede, causes every first basic attack to root, giving Nautilus significant presence in teamfights. Titan's Wrath gives him a shield and area damage over time, making it great for jungling. He also has great ganking potential due to his Dredge Line and Depth Charge. Best of all, for the first part of the game, the enemy team will assume that you do no damage, so they will focus your teammates, allowing you to do a lot of damage before they notice.

Cons

+ Cooldown on Titan's Wrath is fairly long and does not decrease with level + *Squishy + Low base movement speed + Low base attack speed and very little with levels + Dredge Line can reposition you poorly if you miss + Depth Charge is avoidable (kind of) + DPS is dependent on Titan's Wrath

Although you will be getting movement and attack speed later, Nautilus starts out slow. Very slow. He is so slow, you will feel like you've been Withered until you get some speed. Once you do get attack speed, you will clear jungle camps faster than your Titan's Wrath cools down, making you wait to clear the jungle. Since you won't be building health, you will be squishy. Your ult excels at close combat, but if they are far away when you cast it, it gives them time to run away, and champions such as Fizz or Vladimir can avoid it, leaving you a sad formerly human large metal golem thing.

*These Pros and Cons are specific to Attack Speed Nautilus, not necessarily Nautilus in general.

• Greater Mark of Attack Speed: Attack Speed Nautilus needs attack speed. Enough said. The only marks I would even consider switching these for are Greater Mark of Magic Penetration.
• Greater Seal of Scaling Health: These help supplement your lack of late game health items and increase the shield on Titan's Wrath. If you want an easier early jungle, you could switch these for Greater Seal of Armor.
• Greater Glyph of Ability Power: Gives you early game damage (since all of your abilities scale with AP). I sometimes mix these with Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power for more late game damage.
• Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: Again, these help your ability damage until you get some AP. You could trade these out for Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed if you want Nautilus to be less slow.

Smite is very important as a jungler, not only because of the damage, but also because of the buffs you receive when smiting jungle monsters and the ability to purchase the jungle items. Smite is essential for most, if not all junglers.

The summoner spell I usually take with smite is Flash. It helps augment Nautilus's already significant engage and escape abilities, and allows for better ganks and kill secures. It is better than ghost because you can flash to escape or follow your enemies who have flashed away.

The main alternative to flash I would consider is Ghost. It may not give as much utility or instant movement, but in longer, drawn out chases, this works better than flash. I would strongly recommend you take flash, but if you want, this is an alternative.

• Staggering Blow: Nautilus' passive is very useful, whether it be for jungling or ganking. The extra damage helps in the jungle and the root helps to give your allies time to get some damage on the person you're ganking before they can run away. The root is rather short early game but gets up to a significant 1.5 seconds. My favorite part is that it makes killing the Rift Scuttler much easier.
  
• Dredge Line: This ability has an amazing amount of utility. Not only does it allow for easy ganks, but you can also use it to get around by hitting terrain (the cooldown is halved) or also use it to escape. If someone is just out of range when you are chasing, you can use it on terrain first to get closer, then on them. Be careful though, as a poorly aimed Dredge Line can pull you in the wrong direction and it cannot pass through terrain. I usually don't try to continue a gank if I miss my Q unless they are very low on health.
  
• Titan's Wrath: This is Nautilus' primary jungle tool. A shield + area damage over time = jungle happiness! Unfortunately though, it is also good at stealing kills from your teammates. Also, after a couple of attack speed items, its cooldown begins to take longer than it takes you to clear camps, forcing you to choose whether to try to get a camp without it or to wait for it to cool down. Nashor's Tooth or Zephyr can help to reduce the cooldown though. Don't forget that it resets your attack timer, so you can use it right after a basic attack for 2 in a row. You sometimes may want to wait until just after the jungle monster's first attack to activate it so you get more attacks with the bonus damage. Also, a little trick, when standing still, the empowered attacks go in pairs (watch his animation) and if he at least starts the first attack of the pair before the shield runs out, both of the attacks will deal the bonus damage, even if the shield is depleted.
  
• Riptide: This ability helps with jungling, especially at early levels. The damage is actually decent and the slow is very useful for killing the Rift Scuttler, sticking to an enemy champion when chasing, or running away. Don't be afraid to spam Riptide when jungling (watch your mana though) because its cooldown is relatively short. Also, when running away, even if your enemy is outside the range of it, go ahead and use it because they will likely be in range by the time the third wave hits them, since there is a delay. You can use this to draw aggro on jungle monsters to get them to attack your enemy too.
  
• Depth Charge: His ult is a fun ability. Nothing ruins an enemy carry's day like seeing the shockwave chasing you with the huge metal golem right behind it. A knockup followed by a stun allows you to get a few attacks in if you are close or to catch up if you are far away. It also does significant damage and has a long range, so it can be used to finish off weak champions, too. If you are being chased by more than one person or are in a teamfight, don't necessarily ult the closest person. It damages and knocks up all enemies it passes through, so ult someone farther away from you so the other champions get knocked up too.

We start by getting Titan's Wrath since it is hard to jungle without it and then Riptide for even better jungling. We get another point in the shield, which makes it easier to keep going through the jungle, and then finally get a point in Dredge Line at level 4. We then proceed to max the shield first for jungling. Make sure to get points in Depth Charge at levels 6, 11, and 16. I then usually level Dredge Line next, because it increases your mobility, chase potential, and escape potential. You may want to max Riptide before Dredge Line, but I would recommend leveling Dredge Line first. As an alternative, you could alternate leveling these if you feel you need the area damage from Riptide.

The path I take through the jungle that seems to work well for Nautilus is pretty typical; if you want to know what it is, please take the time to read this section, but if you have your own jungle path in mind and don't want me telling you what to do, feel free to skip it.
Start with gromp. Ask for a leash. I usually preface this with "Hey [insert champion or lane here], you're awesome right?" It seems to me that being nice usually works. If they just give you a short leash, then still start with gromp, but you may have to recall sooner. Smite early so they know when to back off and you can get the effect from the Gift of the Toadstool. If you need to, use a health potion, but if you can, wait until after blue. Put the skill point in Riptide.

After gromp, go to blue. Use your Titan's Wrath just after it has attacked you for the first time so it lasts longer. Use your Riptide also for faster clearing.

Then go to wolves, use your W and E again, and I usually use the E a second time to finish it. Put your skill point into Titan's Wrath

Next is red buff, check the bushes and use your sweeping lens on the red buff to make sure they are not invading. Start with your W and E, and I usually wait to smite it until it gets low so I get the full health bonus from smiting.

Then go to the raptors, just like usual.

Next go for the golems, smite them early to get the stunning basic attacks to make Titan's Wrath last longer.

Finally, put your skill point in your Dredge Line and your ready to gank if you have enough health. Another good thing to do at this point is kill the rift scuttlers.

For the rift scuttlers, start with 2 basic attacks and then use Riptide to slow them down. Try not to use your Dredge Line if you don't have to because it has a significant mana cost and it will go on full cooldown.

If you want to, you can recall at this point, or you can just roam, ganking, killing more jungle monsters, etc. I would recommend getting items before trying to get dragon though, unless you can be sure of strong participation from your team.
If you don't get a leash, still start with gromp and blue, but you will need to use both of your health potions probably, get one or two other jungle camps, and you should have around enough gold to recall (if not, kill a rift scuttler or two)and get the Skirmisher's Sabre. Then you can return to your red buff and jungle like usual.

In my opinion, ganks are what Nautilus does best. Wait until the lane is pushed to the middle or closer to your turret. Engage with your Dredge Line, but make sure you have a clear shot and can hit with it. Watch out for minion waves as they will block your shot and make it harder to gank. Also, remember to use your Skirmisher's Sabre early enough in the fight to get the damage over time on them. Smiting the raptors can help you get rid of the pesky wards or your sweeping lens can do even better. Even if you reveal a ward with either, you don't have to stay and kill it! Sometimes I try to stay and kill the ward and it gives the enemy laner enough time to get away, when if I had just moved on, the gank would have been successful. If they are under turret, you can still try as your Dredge Line may pull them out of the turret's range. Just remember that it pulls you and them together, not them to you like Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab does.

Your role in teamfights is similar to your role in ganks. Whenever an enemy squishy steps out a little bit from the group to poke your team, your job is to grab them with Dredge Line. This separates them from the enemy team and usually gets your team a kill. Be careful though to not grab a wall or turret, which can drag you under turret or into the enemy team as you have no way to cancel your Dredge Line once used. You can also take down tanks, since you do a mix of physical and magic damage, and can stick to them well, but beware of attacking tanks when their more damaging teammates can show up to help them.

Remember while roaming, if you have blue buff, to use your Dredge Line to move around. This is especially important before you get boots of mobility. Try to get it to hit the terrain as close to the end of its range as possible, but be careful, because if you miss, not only have you wasted time and mana, but it will go on full cooldown, possibly leaving you unable to use it when you need it. Also, it works on turrets, so as soon as your minions get within turret range, you can Dredge Line to the turret to get started killing it sooner. Remember if you are chasing and are out of range, to Dredge Line to a nearby wall to get closer so your next one will hit them. Be careful of running out of mana though if you don't have a blue buff.

You may be wondering if this build actually works. I am here to tell you that it does and show you some proof that it does.

As one of my Gold II friends said, "I have no words to describe the majesty of Attack Speed Warden Nautilus."






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Hopefully by now I have convinced you of the viability of Attack Speed Nautilus and given you an idea of how to make it work. If you have read this far, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my build guide. Please leave feedback so I can know what I can do better with it, and if the build works for you, please let me know!

I would like to give a big shout-out to jhoijhoi's Making a Guide guide which was super useful in helping me create this guide!

4/12/15- Updated jungle path because the one I had didn't make sense. Added argument against Enchantment: Cinderhulk.

6/21/15- Improved argument against Enchantment: Cinderhulk Added trick with Titan's Wrath. Also made minor improvements and spelling corrections.

7/9/15- Replaced incorrect jungle map. Emphasized importance of new Enchantment: Devourer over Enchantment: Cinderhulk. Minor inprovements.

9/30/15- Added Dead Man's Plate as the recommended defense item.