Graves with Nautilus
How to Synergize Graves and Nautilus
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Graves Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Graves with Nautilus
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nautilus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Nautilus on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical ally for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Graves and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be careful when finding Nautilus teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Graves and Nautilus together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Graves and Nautilus synergy build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nautilus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Graves and Nautilus pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nautilus with Graves are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.