Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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 Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nautilus helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Nautilus, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nautilus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Nautilus on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Nautilus is a below average ally for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Gragas and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Nautilus allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Gragas and Nautilus together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Gragas in order to work well with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Nautilus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Gragas and Nautilus pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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