Darius with Nautilus
How to Synergize Darius and Nautilus
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Darius Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Darius with Nautilus
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Darius perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Nautilus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Nautilus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Nautilus on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Darius during team fights.
Synergies between Darius and Nautilus
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Is Darius better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Darius that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor companion for Darius. By playing on the same side as Darius, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Darius and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players must be careful when finding Nautilus allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Darius players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Darius and Nautilus together, you probably will not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Darius and Nautilus synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sterak's Gage, and Trinity Force. When Darius incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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