I am really disliking this free week because of people running this actually. Nautilus is a great jungler, not a great support. He has no transition into the mid/late game because he requires farm to be tanky after he initiates. I also think it's pretty easy to avoid his anchor in comparison to Blitz grab. He's supposed to be a kill lane but you can dump on him early game too in my experience.
I am pretty jealous of your V.
I just feel like he needs the farm to be tanky enough to serve his purpose. Nautilus is a great ganker and a great initiator. This makes him an excellent jungler, but as a support it is difficult for him to serve either purpose. On his initiate he'll just get rocked as a support because he'll be underleveled, low on gold, and not building tanky. Blitz and Leona are both champions who don't need stats to do their job, that's why they make good supports, and both offer more CC than Nautilus.
Doesn't Nautilus have an even slower walking speed than say, Warwick? Even with shoes he definitely seems really slow, so I'm not sure how good the jungle would be. I agree with you about the farm though, since a Nautilus early game takes a ton of damage, possibly even through the shield. I feel like he needs both HP and magic resist and armor, and if you only build those he will not do damage, so you would need stuff like rod of ages, abyssal scepter, etc.
Nautilus has several gap closers and a strong cc kit. He doesn't rely on speed in the same way Warwick, Udyr, Skarner and Shyvana do in order to gank.
The idea behind doing a kill lane (support Leona, Blitzcrank or in this case Nautilus) is to get an advantage early on. All non-heal supports become useless in team fights if they're underfarmed. Maybe they'll have one ability that has some kind of impact during the team fights, but they'll still be at a disadvantage. You don't need any magic resist on your bot lane champions (ad carry or support) before the team fights. The only damage you'll receive will be from the enemy ad carry, so you can just stack flat armor runes. This should give you 40+ armor without any items at level 1.
And unfortunately, two out of every three that do know will end up failing the combo and saving the enemy.
He doesn't need it for his ganks/teamfights because of how punishing his slow/CC is. Boots of Mobility actually seem pretty great on him through because they get you ganking even faster and you just fly right in past the wards.
So true.
All random can still make people rage since one team will get kogmaw in aram (lolz 37 kills or whatever the other day), or it'll be ranged versus a bunch of melee. Overall I agree though. I prefer semi-silly teams where I can play a fun champion and/or one I don't use much, where people are laughing at crazy antics, over games where people are yelling at each other and rage-defriending.
I have no problem with this. :> I feel like I haven't played kogmaw in ages, so it'll be good to have a chance.
I will always treasure that one aram game where I had AP teemo and got like 20+ kills. I think (hope?) we came back to win that game. Mushrooms of death!
Out of context it sounds like we are talking about arabic people (who, from my own experience, are totally a hoot!)
Balls! I just bought him! (not that he was expensive). I'm excited to try out Ahri, though!
