Alistar with Nautilus
How to Synergize Alistar and Nautilus
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Alistar Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nautilus
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Alistar Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nautilus helps Alistar perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Nautilus, he gets a big jump in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Nautilus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Nautilus on the same team, he usually receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nautilus
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no ideal companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nautilus is a decent companion for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a good bond between Alistar and Nautilus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when arranging Nautilus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Alistar and Nautilus together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Alistar and Nautilus synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nautilus with Alistar are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.