Hard Engage
Weak if missing primary engage.
Create lane states that let engage champions move first.
Use fog-of-war and sweepers to threaten instant starts.
Find flank angles or punish carries stepping past their frontline.


Create an isolated target before dragon or Baron.
Create an isolated target before dragon or Baron.
Needs follow-up damage.
Avoid poke lanes.
Similar performance in both environments
Create lane states that let engage champions move first.
Use fog-of-war and sweepers to threaten instant starts.
Find flank angles or punish carries stepping past their frontline.
Among 54 comparable Support champions.
Three bounded line-ups: the champion is locked, alternatives stay compact, and the score is draft fit, not win probability.
Weak if missing primary engage.
Create lane states that let engage champions move first.
Use fog-of-war and sweepers to threaten instant starts.
Find flank angles or punish carries stepping past their frontline.
Weak if missing AoE damage.
Protect key ultimate champions until level spikes.
Fight around grouped objectives where enemies must clump.
Hold critical ultimates for grouped fights rather than single low-value kills.
Weak if missing vision control.
Use pushing lanes to unlock support and jungle movement.
Deny vision, hold control wards, and threaten catches before objectives.
Avoid fair 5v5s unless a key target is already chunked or caught.
Lane, composition and blind-draft bans use separate reasons.
Rell is a recurring SoloQ counter profile for Nautilus.
Taric is useful to remove when you need a stable blind draft around Nautilus.
Morgana's Black Shield can deny Nautilus' main engage window and reduce his kill pressure in lane.
These pages summarize high-elo coordinated 5v5 games. Public scouting sections use raw game counts for readability; weighted games remain in the methodology because lower-confidence sources count less.
Ranked 5v5 is treated as the highest-confidence coordinated 5-player source.
Flex 5 confirmed means the same five-player group was detected across multiple games.
Flex 5 candidate is useful high-elo Flex signal, weighted lower until confirmed.
Role rankings require at least 100 raw games and 75 weighted games for each comparable champion. Secondary roles require at least 100 raw games and 50 weighted games.