Leona with Nautilus
How to Synergize Leona and Nautilus
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Leona Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Leona with Nautilus
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 decrease shows that Nautilus helps Leona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Nautilus, she sees a big jump in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nautilus provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Nautilus on the same side, she usually takes significantly more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Nautilus
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Is Leona better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best synergy for Leona that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very bad teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -11.3% to 40.9%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Leona and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you must be very careful when finding Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Nautilus together, you will not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Leona and Nautilus synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 40.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 40.9% win rate overall.
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