Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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.
The Corki 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, Corki 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 Corki perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Corki is paired with Nautilus, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Nautilus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Corki plays with Nautilus on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Corki during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Corki that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical companion for Corki. By locking into the same team as Corki, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Corki and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Corki. That means Corki players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nautilus comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Corki and Nautilus together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Corki to pair well with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Corki and Nautilus synergy build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Corki combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Corki boasted an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Corki players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Corki and Nautilus pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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