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.
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
The Nautilus Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Akshan, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Akshan doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Akshan on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Akshan is a relatively poor teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same team as Nautilus, they decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Nautilus and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Akshan together, you will not be providing your team very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Nautilus and Akshan synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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