K'Sante with Nautilus
How to Synergize K'Sante and Nautilus
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K'Sante Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Nautilus
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps K'Sante perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante is paired with Nautilus, they sees a little decrease in their full damage dealt. This change could signal that Nautilus does not help protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Nautilus on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting K'Sante during teamfights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Nautilus
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best synergy for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their top ally. However, Nautilus is a not very good companion for K'Sante. By locking into the same side as K'Sante, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between K'Sante and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nautilus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning K'Sante and Nautilus together, you may not be giving your team enough utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master K'Sante in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your K'Sante and Nautilus synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 45.6% helping carry Nautilus with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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