Garen with Nautilus
How to Synergize Garen and Nautilus
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Garen Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Garen with Nautilus
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen 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 fall shows that Nautilus helps Garen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Nautilus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Nautilus does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Nautilus on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Garen that will always be his best ally. However, Nautilus is a very typical ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Garen and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Nautilus teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Garen and Nautilus together, you may not be giving your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Garen and Nautilus synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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