Kayn with Nautilus
How to Synergize Kayn and Nautilus
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Kayn Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Nautilus
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nautilus helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn tries to synergize with Nautilus, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nautilus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Nautilus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Kayn in teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no perfect ally for Kayn that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor teammate for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Kayn and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nautilus allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kayn and Nautilus together, you will not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Kayn and Nautilus synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kayn incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kayn players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kayn and Nautilus pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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