Nautilus with Annie
How to Synergize Nautilus and Annie
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Nautilus Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Annie
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Annie
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.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Nautilus Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Annie, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Annie does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Annie on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Annie?
There is no top companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Annie is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, she improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Nautilus and Annie that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Annie comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Nautilus and Annie together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Nautilus to pair well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Nautilus and Annie synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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