Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Irelia perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Nautilus, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Nautilus doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Nautilus on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Irelia that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, Nautilus is a very typical companion for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.0%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Irelia and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players should be cautious when enlisting Nautilus comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Irelia players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Irelia and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to work well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Irelia and Nautilus synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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